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Hi guys,

I´m dealing with a website of a client where hreflang tags are implemented as follows:

As you can see the hreflang tags reference language & countrycode as well as only the languagecode with the same URL (for french: website/fr/ihr-besuch/online-tickets" hreflang="fr-fr"  as well as hreflang="fr" href="https://www.website/fr/ihr-besuch/online-tickets").

Is this a problem and should be corrected so that either language & countrycode is referenced or only languagecode?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks Gaston for your answer on this!

I will definitely not make a fast move here and will start with testing for sure.

Are there are more people who can contribute to this or have experience with this topic?

Thanks!

Hey,

a client has as .de domain with subdirectories for different languages, so domain.de/de, domain.de/en, domain.de/fr etc.

hreflang Tags are implemented, so each subdirectory of each language references to the other languages, so for domain.de/en it is:

My question is about the combination of ccTLD + language subdirectory. Do you think this is problematic for Google and should be replaced with .com + language subdirectory?

We have lots a high quality domains (from countries with corresponding languages) linking to .de/de and .de/en, some links on .de/fr & .de/es and 0 links pointing to .de/cn.

Thanks in advance!
Julian