hreflang-check

To audit hreflang tags, you validate self-referential tags, bidirectional references, and ISO language-region codes across HTML, HTTP headers, or XML sitemaps to ensure correct international targeting. This process identifies mis-served content and generates corrected snippet templates.

Google serves the wrong language version when hreflang tags contain invalid ISO codes, missing x-default fallbacks, or broken bidirectional references. Auditing these annotations across your sitemap or HTML ensures reciprocal mappings and prevents incorrect regional targeting.

Validating hreflang annotations in an XML sitemap requires checking absolute URLs, enforcing URL consistency, and detecting duplicate codes. A full audit verifies x-default presence and cross-page references, outputting precise fix snippets grouped by page and issue type.

Yes, you can automatically check bidirectional hreflang references and x-default presence. The audit guarantees reciprocal hreflang mappings between pages and verifies a proper fallback version is available to prevent mis-served content across markets.

To fix invalid language-region codes, you enforce strict ISO standards for both language and region identifiers during the audit. This detects non-standard codes and provides exact, ready-to-implement corrected snippet templates for your multilingual site.

Yes, self-referential hreflang tags are required on every page so each page points to itself in its own language. Verification ensures every page includes its own annotation alongside reciprocal mappings and an x-default fallback.