[#15071] - Alternate hreflang for the current language
- Expected Behaviour
- 3 Apr 2017
- Medium
- Build: 3.6.5
- # 15071
Steps to reproduce the issue
I have a website available in 3 languages: Spanish (default), English & German.
If you check the source code of the Spanish version (as an example but behaviour is the same on all) homepage you can see the alternate hreflang for: Spanish, English and German but:
Expected result
I expect on the Spanish Version to show only the equivalent pages in their languages so on the Spanish version it should show:
<link href="http://www.mediafish.es/de/" rel="alternate" hreflang="de" />
<link href="http://www.mediafish.es/en/" rel="alternate" hreflang="en" />
Actual result
It also shows the Spanish Version as alternate hreflang which is not correct as we are already on the Spanish version so it should only link to the alternate versions English & German...
<link href="http://www.mediafish.es/de/" rel="alternate" hreflang="de" />
<link href="http://www.mediafish.es/" rel="alternate" hreflang="es" />
<link href="http://www.mediafish.es/en/" rel="alternate" hreflang="en" />
System information (as much as possible)
Joomla 3.6.5
Additional comments
joomla-cms-bot
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franz-wohlkoenig
- | Category | ⇒ | Multilanguage |
| Build | staging | ⇒ | 3.6.5 |
Closing as expected behavior.
| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-04-03 13:14:22 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | Bakual |
well ok but they write:
...the Spanish version must include a rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link...
why do they use X and not es?
| Status | Closed | ⇒ | Expected Behaviour |
why do they use hreflang="x" and not hreflang="es" if they talk about the Spanish version?
It's a placeholder for the language, like back in school when you had algebra
In the examples on the page it's clear that "x" isn't a valid value.
Well ok you know that because of your experience and thanks for pointing that out :-)
...but if you start talking about algebra; at school we only used placeholders if we were talking about unknown values - but here the value is Spain so no need for "x "but "es" ;-)
This behavior is correct as per Google guidelines: