Can multiple geotargeting hreflang tags be set in one URL? International SEO question
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Hi All,
I have a question please.
If i target www.onedirect.co.nl/en/ in English for Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, are the tags below correct?
English for Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg:
http://www.example.co.nl/en/" hreflang="en-nl" />
http://www.example.co.nl/en/" hreflang="en-be" />
http://www.example.co.nl/en/" hreflang="en-lu" />
AND Targeting Holland and Belgium in Dutch:
Pour la page www.onedirect.co.nl on peut inclure ce tag:
http://www.example.co.nl" hreflang="nl-nl" />
http://www.example.co.nl" hreflang="nl-be" />
thanks a lot for your help!
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Hi,
Thanks a lot for your help. I will then use one hreflang per URL.
Cheers,
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loganr is right. There is no point in repeating the same URL for multiple English variants. Just use "en" and "nl" and 1 Hreflang entry per URL.
Another thing you could do is create multiple URLs for each of your variants. e.g. example.co.uk for en-GB, example.be for en-BE and so on. But unless you have really customized the content for each of these variants to be truly geography-specific, you are better off consolidating everything under 1 English URL. Otherwise Google will think you've got duplicate content. See example.
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With your .co.nl TLD, it's unlikely that you'd get much (if any) visibility in U.S. Google.
You could also do the following:
- Specify your primary country in Search Console
- Use sitemaps to identify targeted countries: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en
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Hi,
Thank you for your answer, however i do not want to market the products to the US for instance, how can i do this?
Thanks,
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Hi,
In this instance, since you're targeting multiple countries but the same language, it's acceptable to only specify the language in the hreflang tag, and leave the country out. For example:
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