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Validate the hreflang implementation in a test environment

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:25 am
by shaownhasan
Tagged pages should be crawled (via the site or alternatively the XML sitemap, if this is the chosen implementation method) in a test environment before they are launched, to identify any tagging errors.

E. Monitoring and troubleshooting hreflang implementation after launch
You re-raw the tagged pages after you launch them on the live site to identify any advantages of truemoney database remaining issues and begin monitoring them through the International Targeting report in Google Search Console.

You should also start monitoring continuously to identify any issues when publishing new pages or when modifying or deleting existing ones. You can also identify any new issues with language and country misalignment in Google search results through the Google Search Console Performance report .

F. Establish guidelines for best practices in implementing hreflang
Document the scope of hreflang to establish the rules to follow whenever pages in the affected languages ​​and/or countries are published, or their URLs are changed or removed.

This documentation is necessary to ensure that hreflang annotations are always up to date and validated effectively.

With such a hreflang implementation process, errors should be minimized and, if they do occur, quickly identified and resolved.

For more information, you can read the post: The most common errors in Hreflang implementation .

I hope this post helps you avoid the most common international SEO problems, and if you are facing one of them right now, now you know how to fix it.