What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents international SEO failures by detecting incorrect hreflang implementations, including invalid language/region codes, broken bidirectional return relationships, missing x-default, and canonical/protocol mismatches that cause search engines to ignore hreflang sets.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Hreflang validation: Checks self-referencing tags, bidirectional return tags (full mesh), x-default presence, and canonical URL alignment.
- Code correctness: Validates language codes against ISO 639-1 and region qualifiers against ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 formatting rules.
- Implementation generation & parity support: Generates hreflang outputs for HTML link tags, HTTP header Link values, and XML sitemap xhtml:link structures, and supports multi-language content parity and cultural adaptation review.
Quick Start
Use the hreflang skill to audit a site’s international language versions at https://example.com and produce a corrected hreflang implementation plan.