Expanding your site to more languages
Why Webmasters Stack Exchange recommends it
Webmasters Stack Exchange answerers point people to it as an official Google explanation when they ask how to set up hreflang tags and rank multilingual versions of a site.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2017 to 2021.
What it is
A 2013 Google Search Central video on expanding a website to new languages or country-based language variations. It covers use cases for international sites and how to implement rel="alternate" hreflang, including x-default, with best practices.
What people said
Strong rec NeNaD · 2021-11 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Do different language versions of websites rank as good as the main”
Having the site rank high in one language does not mean it will be high in other languages. However, if you link your English instance (with high reputation) with the instance in other languages, it will help that new instance in terms of SEO, but it will still not guaranty a high rank. So, it is highly recommended to link instances with hreflang [LINK] tags, but you should work on SEO content for each language since just translating the site will not guaranty high rank. You can check this official video from Google [this video] for more information. It is one of the best resources that will explain exactly what you need.
Cites Seb · 2017-11 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “How to avoid hreflang return errors with URL that contain parameters”
The problem you have is caused by the combination of canonical and hreflang . Your setup Given your example: for the URL [LINK] you specify the following: <link rel="canonical" href=" [LINK] "> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href=" [LINK] "> What's going on? This is how Google reads these information: This URL is a 1:1 duplicate of [LINK] and I shall not index it but this URL also has an alternate language version for "en-US" available at [LINK] What does this mean to Google? the canonical is not a directive Google may respect it the hreflang is a very important information, Google has to validate it by checking the alternate URL for return tags What you see in your Search Console is
Cites newbie · 2020-12 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “What should the hreflang be for sites with more than 3 languages containing child pages?”
We've got a domain: [LINK] Right now the domain is pointing directly to the page. We are based in Germany. So actually the site should be directing to [LINK] , right? We want to create a Spanish and a Italian version of it. let's start the the Spanish version [LINK] Now do ALL of the hreflang-tag have to be included? (including the Italian version) or just the the Spanish version and the default German version? How would the href lang tags look like? <link rel="alternate" href=" [LINK] " hreflang="x-default" /> <link rel="alternate" href=" [LINK] " hreflang="en" /> <link rel="alternate" href="hhttps:// [LINK] " hreflang="de" /> <link rel="alternate" href=" [LINK] " hreflang="it" /> <link rel