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Hreflang Tag great for Google, what about Bing or others?
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I've read that the Hreflang Tag is all the rave for International solutions on a per page basis. I haven't read much about what International agencies are using for non-Google search engines such as Bing. Is the common language meta tags the only solution? would love to see an article that addresses this
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I'm pretty sure meta language is the only thing Bing recognizes for language at this point.
http://returnonnow.com/2012/06/international-seo-hreflang-tag/
For any other search engines, you need to employ the Meta Language Tag. There are two ways to set up the syntax on this tag:
Or the alternative syntax would be:
If the site is only targeting a language, the latter would suffice. However, if you are targeting to language and country (e.g. Spanish for Spain vs. Mexico), use the first option.
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