Language tags.

  • Hi everyone.

    Our main website is https://www.global-lingo.com/ and we also made a localised, indentical website for Singapore, https://www.global-lingo.sg/. I was checking Webmaster tools and saw that the main domain shows 234 errors for the hreflang tags.

    Some specifics to know:

    We added the language tags only on the main domain’s header, as we wanted this to be site wide.

    The number of errors went down. There were 281 on the 27th of June.

    The content is identical on both websites, the language is English on both. The number of pages is not identical as we deleted some from the Singaporean website, as well as blog posts. There are over 400 on the main website and less than 100 on the Singaporean website.

    We use canonicals on our pages, all of them, and I see 1613 notices from the pages that use canonicals. Maybe it’s related to the no returns tags issue.

    Did we put the code in the right place? Do we need to add it to the Singaporean website header also?

    Thank you for your help. I know there are a lot of questions.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I … have absolutely no idea what an error 234 is for, and Google is of zero help. Do you mean the ERROR is a 234 or that you have 234 errors listed … somewhere?

    Where are you seeing the error?

    What’s the EXACT error message.

    Thread Starter Doringl

    (@doringl)

    Hi Ipstenu,

    I mean there are a number of 234 errors listed. The error is ‘en-sg’ – no return tags.

    The primary website is the .com one.

    Thanks.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Ah, thank you ?? Where is the error showing up? In Google…?

    I’m guessing that, based on this article: https://searchenginewatch.com/article/2355253/Google-Webmaster-Tools-Adds-International-Targeting-Report-to-Show-hreflang-Errors

    Google simply explains this by saying “If page A links to page B, page B must link back to page A, otherwise the annotations may not be interpreted correctly.”

    So the problem is not all your links are … linked right.

    Thread Starter Doringl

    (@doringl)

    I read about that. The thing is that we first read that you only need to add the code to the primary website’s header, so it covers the whole website. No one said that the code has to be added on the localised website also.

    Every where I read about it I saw the same text as in the link you supplied, that the code should be in the targeted pages also. But no one is mentioning the header, which is why I am confused about this.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    It’s something to dig into with Google. It’s not REALLY a multisite error, as far as I can tell.

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