For My International Sites only Homepage in other Language rest Pages are in English. Hreflang required here?
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Hello All,
For my ecommerce site at my homepage there is an Language option of 9 different countries.
My main site - abcd.co.uk and other sites are like this se.abcd.co.uk, fr.abcd.co.uk, es.abcd.co.uk etc From my main site if user clicks on fr.abcd.co.uk then France site will open but when he click on any link it will redirect to my UK site. On France site homepage if user hover the cursor then links are visible of UK site only.
My query is ;-
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Do it required here to implement hreflang? As only homepage is in different language?
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Do it anything wrong in google point of view?
Thanks!
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Hi there.
Hreflang is only for pages with multiple languages. So, in your case, it would be homepage only. No need to add "fake" hreflangs to other pages.
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I am also facing this same problem. I'm trying to figure out if I put hreflang for all the languages only on the homepage (as that is the only page on our site with various versions) or if I need to put in on all pages of my site, even if they don't have international versions. Our homepage has about 7 international versions and our inner pages only have an english version. Do I only put international hreflang on the homepage and just put english on the inner pages? Thanks!
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Agree with both statements.
Also want to say that the way you have it set up is a bit weird. If i land on non-english version of your website, and then on click on any link it would take me to english version, I'd consider it a big UX flaw. Especially if user can not understand english.
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Yes. Also, you can set hreflang in the english version, just stating that its the english version.
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I am not an expert implementating, every time I need to implement, I do a recheck of a few sources. Here some:
The hreflang Tags Generator Tool - Aleyda Solis (Moz's associate)
Use hreflang for language and regional URLs - Search Console Help
Hreflang Attribute - MozHope it helps!
GR. -
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Hi @Gaston,
Thanks for the response!
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I can implement hreflang only on homepage right because rest other pages are in English only?
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Can you please suggest hreflang tag for my above sites to be implement on main and other sites ?
Please!
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Hi there,
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yes you should implement hreflang. As you are using a geo told, is really needed the hreflang so Google can understand that the web isn't British.
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I'd set subdirectories instead of subdomains. Remember that Google considers subdomains as a different site from the main domain.
Hope it helps
GR
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