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hreflang

A signal that tells search engines which language and region version of a page to serve.

Definition

A <link rel="alternate" hreflang="..."> annotation that maps each page variant to its language-region pair (e.g., en-US, fr-CA, x-default). Misconfigured hreflang creates wrong-locale rankings and can trigger duplicate-content treatment across markets. Bidirectional consistency matters: if A links to B, B must link back to A.

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