International Href Lang Tag Parameter Issue
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Hey, let's say I'm on the following page..
site.com/product-name/product-code/?d=womens
I view the page source and it looks like this..
My question is, should I remove the parameter for the hreflang tag????
I just need some clarification that NO parameter page should have a canonical tag and / or href lang with parameters..
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Hreflang tags should point to the canonical version of the page. So yes, please remove the ?d=Womens from all your Hreflang URLs.
Here are the results of a test run on this URL to check for Hreflang errors:
https://app.hreflang.org/results.php?runid=f622e3d03dbf4a03958c6a6d2d180bd020160719202039
You will see that all errors are because of the ?d=Womens in the URLs.
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No, they should not stay.
Canonicals and hreflang should point to the same page.Like this:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="<a href="http://www.revolve.com/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolve.com/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-fr"href="<a href="http://www.revolveclothing.fr/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolveclothing.fr/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru-ru" href="<a href="http://www.revolveclothing.ru/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolveclothing.ru/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-es"href="<a href="http://www.revolveclothing.es/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolveclothing.es/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko-kr" href="<a href="http://www.revolve.co.kr/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolve.co.kr/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt-br"href="<a href="http://www.revolveclothing.com.br/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolveclothing.com.br/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-au" href="<a href="http://www.revolveclothing.com.au/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolveclothing.com.au/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja-jp" href="<a href="http://www.revolveclothing.co.jp/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.revolveclothing.co.jp/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?" /></link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja-jp" href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-au" href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt-br"href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko-kr" href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-es"href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru-ru" href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-fr"href="<a></link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="<a> -
Here, Ill just show the site
So here
view-source:http://www.revolve.com/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/
If you control find "href lang" you'll see the following (see below). Are you sure that the parameters (?d=Womens) should stay on there when the canonical page is http://www.revolve.com/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/ ?????
| rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://www.revolve.com/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| | rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-fr" href="http://www.revolveclothing.fr/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| | rel="alternate" hreflang="ru-ru" href="http://www.revolveclothing.ru/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| | rel="alternate" hreflang="es-es" href="http://www.revolveclothing.es/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| | rel="alternate" hreflang="ko-kr" href="http://www.revolve.co.kr/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| | rel="alternate" hreflang="pt-br" href="http://www.revolveclothing.com.br/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| | rel="alternate" hreflang="en-au" href="http://www.revolveclothing.com.au/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" /> |
| |rel="alternate" hreflang="ja-jp" href="http://www.revolveclothing.co.jp/nightcap-dixie-cutout-mini-dress-in-sangria/dp/NIGH-WD262/?d=Womens" />
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ok,
no, you should not remove the parameter unless there is a canonical tag, then set the hreflang as the canonical -
No it's not about removing the hreflang tag. It's that the hreflang has a parameter. Should I remove the parameter?
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So, the clarification that you needed: No, you have not to remove the hreflang.
And there must be one tag for every language, in this case 8 hreflang. -
Hey GR,
There are 7 other ccTLD's which is why we have the href lang tag.
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Hi paul,
Does that page have other languages? Or just frech?
In that case, it is no needed to set hreflang. Just declarin it in search console is enough.Besides its a page with a parameter, it still needs to be declared its language. (with hreflan if there are other languages and with SC, or if there is only one language just with SC)
Hope it helps
GR.
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