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hreflang tag - Does this handle duplicate content?

by jasonbrien
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Hi Folks,

I am little bit confused about the role of hreflang tag in handling duplicate content.

I have created a new News website which is basically targeting in India with TLD .in and in that I have to publish the articles which are already published in very old website targeting US with TLD .org. So should I use the following hreflang tags:

In the page, http://example.org/news-article-1.html, hreflang will be
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html" />

And in the page, http://example.in/news-article-1.html, hreflang will be
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-in" href="http://en-gb.example.com/page.html" />

Am I doing right or there are some better suggestions to handle this problem. Kindly help!
#content #duplicate #handle #hreflang #tag
  • Profile picture of the author Sclark
    Basically, a hreflang on the .org page mentioning the .in page would say "Ok Google, here I am, an article in English, please index me, and then also index this page with identical content but in Hindi", but this works in case the articles are identical but in different languages. This just instructs Google of the relations between the different language versions.

    In case the articles are in same language and have the exact same content - the hreflang won`t fix the duplication issue, and you should use the rel=canonical to set one (perhaps, the newer) page as canonical and make it indexed. Going this way you should set one page as canonical for itself and for the second page, and the duplicated content shouldn`t cause any issues.
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