Google not detecting Hreflang
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Hey everybody,
We recently migrated our .co.uk to .com/en.
Google for some reason is saying that the .com/en version has no hfrelang tags - even though they are clearly there and have had the same implementation as other language versions of the website.
We also did a previous migration 6 months ago for the german version of our website and no hreflang problems there.
We add our hreflang tags to our sitemap - which you can find here:
https://camaloon.com/en/web-sitemap.xmlAny help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks
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My website is also about gas detector and I want to optimize it.
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@mooj Please index that page again in Google also I suggest to re-submit XML sitemap and wait for couple of days or more to get refresh index databases of search engine.
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@worldwebtechnology Hey, Thanks for checking it out.
I see the same thing you see and it looks like the implementation has been done correctly.
However for some reason I still get this message in google search console
It might have to do with having it in the sitemaps? Would love to know if any has any insights on this.
Thanks!
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@mooj I have tested your Hreflang tags , it seems okay to me
see this [http://prntscr.com/1xda8mv](link url)?
why you added in XML sitemap?
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