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What is hreflang?

Annotations that tell search engines which language or region each page version targets.

Each language version should list all others plus an x-default, and the links must be reciprocal or search engines ignore them.

Related terms

  • Canonical URL: The preferred URL for a page, declared with link rel="canonical".
  • Open Graph: Meta tags (og:title, og:image…) that control how links look when shared.
  • Structured data (JSON-LD): Machine-readable facts about a page using the schema.org vocabulary.