What is hreflang? and how it is useful for SEO?
What is the Hreflang Attribute? Hreflang is an HTML <link> or <link> tag attribute that helps search engines to find the relationship between pages in different languages on your website. To serve the correct regional or language Google uses the attribute URLs in its search results based on the searcher’s country and language preferences. Concerning the SEO of an international website, hreflang is a need-to-know attribute. Where does it go? Google support tells us that the tag can be implemented in one of three ways (you only need to choose one). > As a link in the HTML > In the HTTP header > On the sitemap 1. As a link in the <head> of the page The hreflang attribute looks like rel="alternate" href=”(url here)” hreflang="x" ...with “x” being where you would place the language and country codes that dictate which webpage to show. Rel=”alternate” (similar to the rel=”canonical” tag) is a tag that tell...