Google Adds New Link Element Markup For Multilingual Content
Google announced a new markup to communicate multilingual content to Google’s spiders. The new link element is rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” where you define the language and location in the hreflang area. Here are examples of how you may use it respectively: https://www.example.com/ – contains the general homepage of a website, in Spanish https://es-es.example.com/ – is the […]
Barry Schwartz on December 5, 2011 at 4:25 pm | Reading time: 2 minutes
Google announced a new markup to communicate multilingual content to Google’s spiders.
The new link element is rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” where you define the language and location in the hreflang area.
Here are examples of how you may use it respectively:
- https://www.example.com/ – contains the general homepage of a website, in Spanish
- https://es-es.example.com/ – is the version for users in Spain, in Spanish
- https://es-mx.example.com/ – is the version for users in Mexico, in Spanish
- https://en.example.com/ – is the generic English language version
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://www.example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-ES" href="https://es-es.example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-MX" href="https://es-mx.example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://en.example.com/" />
For more details on how to use this, see this Google help document.
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