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Google updated its hreflang documentation to note a quirk in how some websites use it that (presumably) can have unintended consequences with how Google processes it.<\/p>\n
In the case of the hreflang attribute (link element attribute), the purpose is to specify languages. All link elements belong to
section of the document.<\/p>\nGoogle noticed that there is some unwanted behavior that happens when publishers combine multiple attributes in a link element, so they updated the hreflang documentation to make this more familiar.<\/p>\n
The changlog<\/a> explain:<\/p>\n “Clarification of link tag attributes Why: While debugging a report from a site owner, we noticed that we don’t have this quirk documented.”<\/p>\n There was a change to the documentation that warns publishers and SEOs to be aware of this issue. Those who audit websites should take this into account.<\/p>\n This is the old version of the documentation:<\/p>\n \u201cPut yours on tags near the top of the or a tracking pixel. When in doubt, paste the code of your rendered page into an HTML validator to make sure the links are in This is the recently updated version:<\/p>\n “The tags must be inside a well-formed placeholder Google’s documentation didn’t say what the consequence of the quirk is, but if Google was debugging it, that means it caused some sort of problem. It’s something seemingly minor that could have an outsized impact.<\/p>\n
What: Clarified in our hreflang documentation that link tags to indicate alternate versions of a page should not be combined into a single link tag.<\/p>\nWhat has changed in the documentation?<\/h2>\n
Read the recently updated documentation here:<\/h3>\n