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Your site has no hreflang tags.

by purushottam1973
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Hi, Friends,
I am facing a problem in Google webmaster tool. That my website has no hreflang tags. Does this affect site's search ranking or this is common?
I searched on the google about this but I don't understand what they say. They are giving html codes but where to put?

And yes I am not using any other language except English (en-us). Please help me guyz..any help is very appreciated.
for the source-code check this.
http://www.keepmequiet.com
#hreflang #site #tags
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    If you only have an English version, it's a nonissue.
    You point to something that's not there.

    The internet world, for the most part, runs in English.

    If you are really, really targeting people using other languages,
    it's up to you to create different versions.

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author purushottam1973
      Thanks for reply..
      I am really confused that why WMT showing me this. Is there any kind of thing to put in my html? Somebody told me that if this not solved then its impossible to rank higher. Is this really true?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Actually the language tag can also be used to help GEO target countries.

    Example, there's an hreflang English tag that targets Canada (hreflang="en-ca"), same goes for Australia (hreflang="en-au").
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Perhaps your site is confusing as far as targeting.

      The country code does not specify language.

      Perhaps you are using that, and google thinks you should
      have multiple versions in various languages.

      But you don't. So the hreflang is useless. It would do nothing
      on your site.

      I can tell people to go get some caviar from my fridge all
      day long. But me telling people to go and get it does not
      make it appear. If I have no caviar, people will open the
      fridge and think I'm nuts.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Use hreflang for language and regional URLs



    Many websites serve users from around the world with content translated or targeted to users in a certain region. Google uses the rel="alternate" hreflang="x" attributes to serve the correct language or regional URL in Search results.
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