Hreflang targeted website using the root directory's description & title

[oliverkuchies]

Hi there,

Recently I applied the href lang tags like so:

Unfortunately, the Australian site uses the same description and title as the US site (which was the root directory initially), am i doing something wrong?

Would appreciate any response, thanks!

[DirkC]

Hi,

You could check this tool http://flang.dejanseo.com.au/ to check if the tags are properly implemented.

rgds,

Dirk

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Oliver

Take a look at the following articles from Moz:
Getting hreflang Right: Examples and Insights for International SEO

You can add a title to your hreflang attribute:
title="CNN Mexico" type="text/html"/>

I would also note that your tags don't have a " />" at the end of it - add that. Also, switch href="" and hreflang="" in your attributes - if anything for best practices.

If for some reason these don't fix your meta description as well, I would check and make sure that your Australian site has a different meta description in place.

Here are a couple of more resources for you:
Hreflang Tag Best Practices (Moz)
Using the Correct Hreflang Tag: A New Generator Tool (Moz)

Let me know if these help! Good luck!