Can't set up regional tag?

  • Elnino3838

    (@elnino3838)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there,

    For alternate tags, Google mentions:

    It’s a good idea to provide a generic URL for geographically unspecified users if you have several alternate URLs targeted at users with the same language, but in different locales. For example, you may have specific URLs for English speakers in Ireland (en-ie), Canada (en-ca), and Australia (en-au), but want all other English speakers to see your generic English (en) page, and everyone else to see the homepage. In this case you should specify the generic English-language (en) page for searchers in, say, the UK. You can annotate this cluster of pages using a Sitemap file or using HTML link tags like this:

    <link rel=”alternate” href=”http://example.com/en-ie&#8221; hreflang=”en-ie” />
    <link rel=”alternate” href=”http://example.com/en-ca&#8221; hreflang=”en-ca” />
    <link rel=”alternate” href=”http://example.com/en-au&#8221; hreflang=”en-au” />
    <link rel=”alternate” href=”http://example.com/en&#8221; hreflang=”en” />

    However unless I am mistaken I can only have “en” or “fr” language tag instead of “en-CA” and “fr-CA” tag. Am I correct or am I missing something?

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