SEMrush hreflang error study indicated a high percentage

rochon.a1.119 · Post by **rochon.a1.119** » Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:09 am

It should also be remembered that it is only taken into account by Google.

Bing has its own international branding system and is also not suitable for other major browsers such as Yandex, Baidu and Naver, which may have a very significant market share or even be leaders in the countries targeted by the startup Yandex.

Despite the wide dissemination and the number of Google webmaster guides and help tools such as the popular hreflang markup generator by Aleyda Solís, their implementation is a very common source of errors.

This (15%) of hreflang implementation errors.

Hreflang markup can be used when the content is nearly identical across different languages or has different country targets.

It should be thought of almost as a canonical relation so it belarus mobile database cannot be used if, instead of a translation, completely different content is displayed between languages.

Hreflang tagging can be used between different domains, when a country targeting strategy is applied, as long as the content and architecture differences between the different ccTLDs are minimal.

There are three types of accepted locations for an hreflang markup: in the <head> header of an HTML document, in the XML sitemap, or in the HTTP header.