Comments on: Canonical vs. Hreflang

By: Chris Schwarz

Chris Schwarz — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:30:00 +0000

Hey Dan – would you recommend canonicalising each page (in each different langauge) to itself?

By: Daniel Rouquette

Daniel Rouquette — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:46:00 +0000

Something I have a hard time figuring out is why Google itself is combining hreflang & canonical on the Play store in some way that seems to be the opposite of what you report here. Any idea?

By: Gavski

Gavski — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:59:00 +0000

The question is, as Bing does not recognise alternative language markup and hence it’s relationship in context with the canonical tag, a whole world of pain might be about to open up.

By: Tiggerito

Tiggerito — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0000

I think they also recommend rel=”canonical” if your using automatic translations of pages, switching to hreflang if you do a proper translation.

By: Tiyo Kamtiyono

Tiyo Kamtiyono — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:03:00 +0000

Good info Dan,
This is helpful.
Thanks