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Href lang

by Elpidios
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Hello
I want to ask something about href lang
I have a lot of domains like that
one-example.com
one-example.gr
oneexample.fr
one-examples.it (with s)
oneexamples.ie (with s)
and bla bla....


Some of them has got dash some of them not. Some of them has got (s) some not
1)Does this will be problem for hreflang tag?
2) The english language can have exactly the same content but with a different hreflang?

*I know that if i do that the .fr domain will be only for france and not for an other country that speaks french like belgium but i don't care as i am targeting specific countries.
#href #lang
  • Profile picture of the author ChrisNosal
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    href tag is always used to link text or images and embed a hyperlink - you can write anything you want in that box and link to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    I dont think you are really undersanding the use of the hreflang tag, basically you use it in the SAME DOMAIN with two main porpouses:

    a) To tell Google you have a variation of the same content in different language (to avoid being indexed in the supplementary index)

    b) To Tell Google what content to show when a visitor arrives from that language configuration.

    It has nothing to do with different domain content.
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    • Profile picture of the author Elpidios
      Originally Posted by patadeperro View Post

      I dont think you are really undersanding the use of the hreflang tag, basically you use it in the SAME DOMAIN with two main porpouses:

      a) To tell Google you have a variation of the same content in different language (to avoid being indexed in the supplementary index)

      b) To Tell Google what content to show when a visitor arrives from that language configuration.

      It has nothing to do with different domain content.
      I completely understand (i think).I didn't mention that the content will be exactly the same in different language just with different domain.....
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    • Profile picture of the author Elpidios
      Originally Posted by patadeperro View Post

      I dont think you are really undersanding the use of the hreflang tag, basically you use it in the SAME DOMAIN with two main porpouses:

      a) To tell Google you have a variation of the same content in different language (to avoid being indexed in the supplementary index)

      b) To Tell Google what content to show when a visitor arrives from that language configuration.

      It has nothing to do with different domain content.
      quotation from google site

      "You can specify multi-language URLs in the same domain as a given URL, or use URLs from a different domain."

      https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/189077?hl=en
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      • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
        Originally Posted by Elpidios View Post

        quotation from google site

        "You can specify multi-language URLs in the same domain as a given URL, or use URLs from a different domain."

        https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/189077?hl=en
        This is what it is called a bold man paradox, "how many hair does a man have to lose to be called bold?", applying it to your example: How different needs to be the text to be called original?

        Furthermore If you are creating GOOD translations (and by that I mean paying a translator to do it) the text is absolutely different and you have no need to use the hreflang tags as I said those are used to clarify to Google what version you want to show depending ont he language, the only use I would see in different domains, would be when you use sub domains and that is because Google treats the sub domains as different sites, otherwise I see no point.
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