| Is rel=alternate href=lang is advisable on ccTLDs | newtrend19 | 6/29/12 6:18 AM | One of my clients has multilingual websites with some content variations but 60% of the content on site remains the same. Is it still advisable to use: for example- <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://www.example.co.jp/" /> element when |
| Re: Is rel=alternate href=lang is advisable on ccTLDs | Christopher Semturs | 7/13/12 5:06 AM | If you are targeting different regions (in your example, Germany/UK/Japan), the best advice is to search for your site in those regions, like on http://google.de or http://google.co.uk (in the local language). If you are satisfied with the results you don't need t |
| Is rel=alternate href=lang is advisable on ccTLDs | cristina | 7/13/12 6:56 AM | The rel-alternate-hreflang is useful to indicate to Google that there is duplicate content in different languages, it helps with duplicate content, http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077 |
| Re: Is rel=alternate href=lang is advisable on ccTLDs | muchhala.ronak | 7/17/12 8:55 AM | Yes, I would recommend adding the tag. This would resolve duplicate content issues. Also, this is one way of telling Google that even if the content remains the same (60 %), it must treat it as targeted in different countries and so duplicate content |