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What's Hreflang Attribute

Before l go into how to add Hreflang Attribute tag on your blog, l will, first of all, explain what it means.

Hreflang Attribute defined: Hreflang Attribute which can also be called ( rel="alternate"hreflang="x") is an Attribution or code that tells Google which particular language you are using in your site or particular page.

Which will help the search engines to serve the main result to users who are searching in that language.

Here is an example of Hreflang Attribute code:

What is Rel="Alternate" Hreflang="x"?

This code was introduced by Google platform in December 2011, this Hreflang Attribute allows you to show the search engines the relationship between web pages in alternate languages.

The Hreflang Attribute is useful when you are creating a content targeting a particular audience in mind.

It signals to search engines that a user querying in language "x" will want this result instead of a page with a similar content in language "y".

How To Use Hreflang Tags In Your Blogger Blog Site

Using this example below l will make you understand more about the Hreflang Attribute tag.

Assuming you want to create a Spanish language version of an English Langauge home page, you will have to tag the homepage as "Español" by using the Hreflang Attribute hreflang="es" which will make search engines with an IP address to deliver the Spanish version of the language instead of the English version to any Spanish speaking Country whose making the search.

This will help to decrease your site bounce rate, increase your SEO rating, search engine SERP ranking and also increase your conversions by making sure your targeted audience are the people who land on your page most appropriate for them.

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Hreflang Attribute can also be used to target a Variants of a particular language by targeting your page more precisely by extending the Hreflang Attribute with annotations which will help to indicate which particular region you are targeting e.g. Spain hreflang="es-es" versus Mexico hreflang="es-mx".

This is particularly useful to geo-target users to control for variations in seasonality, currency, shipping culture etc.

The most important thing is that Hreflang is a signal not a directive to the search engines. which means that other SEO factors can overwrite or override the Hreflang Attribute which will cause different versions of your page to rank higher.

And will give search engines best clearer possible signals about a particular page language which a user is searching for.

Note: make sure you're using other international SEO best practices.

Though Google and Yandex are currently making use of Hreflang Attribute but Bing uses language meta tags instead.

How To Use Hreflang Tags In Your Blogger Blog Site

From here l will be brief and direct so you can add and implement this Hreflang Attribute asap on your blog or website for better SEO ranking, decrease your blog bounce rate etc.

Mostly many Webmasters uses the Hreflang Attribute English in their sites including me, so If you want to learn more about Hreflang Tags visit Google Webmaster Blog.

Now below I will share a guide for using language tags in blogger blog. So, let's see.

To use Hreflang Tags In Your Blogger Blog Go to

>> Blogger Dashboard and click >>Theme.

Then >> Edit HTML.

Now click on the HTML code area and find <head> tag. Now paste the below code just after the <head> section.

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If after inputting the first code and you get a parsing code error when uploading the template then you have to use this already parsed Hreflang Attribute tag codes below follow the steps above and add it.

<link rel="alternate" href="http://empiretechx.com/en-us" hreflang="en-us" />

Replace my blog URL with yours.

But in some instances you may like to use multiple Hreflang Attribute to target many English speaking Countries then you have to use this Hreflang Attribute down here the second code is the parsed version of the Hreflang Attribute code.

<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en-ie" hreflang="en-ie" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en-ca" hreflang="en-ca" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en-au" hreflang="en-au" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en" hreflang="en" />

Use the parsed version here.

<link rel="alternate" href="http://empiretechx.com/en-ie" hreflang="en-ie" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://empiretechx.com/en-ca" hreflang="en-ca" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://empiretechx.com/en-au" hreflang="en-au" />

<link rel="alternate" href="http://empiretechx.com/en" hreflang="en" />

And you are done.

When you have successfully added the Hreflang Tags in your Blogger Blog site.

In days when your blog site is crawled again, you will see a change in your webmaster like below in language section.