Subdomain competition
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Hi there,
I have an issue with some subdomain rankings, my client sell all over the world and has divide countries with subdomain like this :
fr.xxxx.com for France,be.xxxx.com for Belgium, ca.xxxx.com for Canada,.....
The issue is that pages are all in french and some keywords on Google.fr are referenced with be.xxxx.com so it count "not in top 50" on moz report.
The code looks correct to me (for example belgiums's pages : "fr-BE">").
Anybody have an idea where to look at to resolve this ?
Many thx in advance.
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Hi Enjin! If Martijn's response answered your question, mind marking it a "Good Answer?"
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No that should be OK. It's ok to mention the language on the page but it wouldn't always help for Google without using HREF lang to take any conclusions based on that.
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Hi Martjin,
Thank you for your answer. In addition in the code ther is also the meta content-language" content="<a class="attribute-value" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">fr</a>"/> for all the pages with french language on it. Do you think this is an issue ?
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Hi,
In addition to the page language tag that you directly add to your HTML as you've done already. Are you also using the href language tags to make sure that Google will know that some pages have an equivalent on another subdomain with the same content but then translated. This usually will work even better then putting the actual content language in the HTML as it's completely invented for your use case.
You can check out more information regarding HREF lang here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
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