February 23, 2023

Hreflang’s Basic Questions You Always Wanted to Ask

Hreflang is commonly misinterpreted and misunderstood, creating stress and frustration for SEOs and web developers. I finally had a chance to capture some of the most common questions I get or see on social media. Nuances and misinterpretations are always lost in simple answers, so the goal is to try […]
February 22, 2023

Developing a Business Case for HREFLang Implementation

Need to convince your stakeholders why they need to invest resources for hreflang Implementation? Here’s how to build a business case for hreflang. TABLE OF CONTENTS Getting budget for the integration of the functionality into the site can be a challenge for site owners of any size. The purpose of […]
December 12, 2022

Understanding the Purpose of Hreflang

There seems to be persistent confusion about the purpose of using hreflang on your website and what it does and does not do. In this post, I will explain the purpose and why it is more critical to implement correctly than most global website owners understand. Google’s Purpose of Hreflang […]
October 18, 2022

Hreflang Deployments Simplified

In a perfect scenario, the organization deploys a hreflang solution for all sites within a brand family and deploys hreflang for them simultaneously.  Given the complexities of deploying hreflang at an enterprise level, most organizations should consider a phased roll-out plan focusing on where the problem is the most acute […]
September 28, 2022

Why Google Needs to Support hreflang

There is an interesting set of threads on Twitter and some comments on Reddit about the value of hreflang and due to the recent depreciation of the International Targeting report, does Google still need to support hreflang. There were also comments that “Google Should be able to use some of […]
September 28, 2022

Understanding Cross-Market SERP Cannibalization

 Some Marketers are happy to have any page ranking well in the search results and often do not consider the negative implications when non-market sites rank higher than the local market in the SERPS.   We call this Cross-Market SERP Cannibalization. SERP cannibalization occurs when a market-specific page ranks or outranks […]
September 13, 2022

IP Detection and HrefLang

The purpose of this post is to address a growing problem where Regional Growth Managers double-down on IP detection as a way to decrease shopping cart abandonment. In some regions like Latin America and the Asia Pacific, shopping cart abandonment can be as high as 87%. To reduce this abandonment, […]
September 13, 2022

GSC International Targeting Tool Depreciation

Earlier this week, Google announced on Twitter they were finally sunsetting their International Targeting tool and hreflang reports.  If you go to the Legacy Tools & Reports and click on International Targeting, you will see the headline noting depreciation on September 22, 2022.  There is a link to a similar […]