Wondering why Google search console wants an hreflang tag?

Resolved Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)

6 years, 8 months ago

This questions is only partially related to your plugin so I’ll mark it as not a support query but maybe you have an idea?

Sample site: http://www.l4s-academy.de/

Your site has no hreflang tags.
Google uses hreflang tags to match the user’s language preference to the right variation of your pages.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6059209?authuser=0

Just wondering why they want a hreflang tag when I have this:

<html class="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de-DE" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb#" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">

Is that not enough?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/kau-boys-backend-localization/

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Plugin Author Bernhard Kau
(@kau-boy)

6 years, 8 months ago

I don’t see why Google should complain about your site lacking a hrefang attribute. As far as I can see, it’s not multilingual and so you don’t need such an attribute poiting to the other language. My personal blog is multilingual and therefore I have those attributes on all pages.

And I also don’t see how this relates “partially” to my plugin, as it’s only for switching the backend language which Google shouldn’t care about at all 🙂

Thread Starter Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)

6 years, 8 months ago

LOL – sorry for the confusion, by partially related I meant that since you actually wrote a plugin related to switching languages for WP you would most probably be aware of this kind of issue 🙂 – a long shot, I know

btw. I was wondering the same about why Google is showing me that warning but as long as its only a warning…

Plugin Author Bernhard Kau
(@kau-boy)

6 years, 8 months ago

I do know how to do multilingual WordPress sites, that’s correct. And I’ve also multiple plugins for language related things. But as long as you don’t want to go multilingual with your website, just ignore the warning.

indobetplay
(@indobetplay)

5 years, 12 months ago

I’ve put up hreflang, but still not be detected
<link rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x” href=”http://www.s128.asia”>
anyone can help me check?
my site http://s128.asia

Thanks

Plugin Author Bernhard Kau
(@kau-boy)

5 years, 12 months ago

Hi indobetplay,

my plugin has nothin to do with setting the hreflang, but as far as I can see from your website, you set it to hreflang=”x” for all languages.

The whole point of using the hreflang is to tell Google, that the page is also available in other languages, so you need to have multiple hreflang settings with different values.

You can read more about that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

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