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Reply to topic   Topic: hreflang in sitemap for multiviews
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Alexandru



Joined: 26 May 2015
Posts: 8
PostPosted: Thu 11 Jun '15 15:31    Post subject: hreflang in sitemap for multiviews Reply with quote
Hi,

I have a website with multiviews activated in the apache conf file.

Currently the site map is looking like this:

Code:

<url>
<loc>http://www.mydomain.de/index</loc>
</url>


I want that the sitemap also contains hreflang as recommended by Google:

Code:

<url>
<loc>http://www.mydomain.de/index</loc>
<xhtml:link
             rel="alternate"
             hreflang="de"
             href="http://www.mydomain.de/index.de"
             />
<xhtml:link
             rel="alternate"
             hreflang="en"
             href="http://www.mydomain.de/index.en"
             />
</url>


The question is, if google's search engine will see it as duplicated content, because visited from USA the URL http://www.mydomain.de/index will provide same content as the alternate URL http://www.mydomain.de/index.en.

So is this way of writing the sitemap okay or not?
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7442
Location: EU, Germany, Next to Hamburg
PostPosted: Thu 11 Jun '15 16:11    Post subject: Re: hreflang in sitemap for multiviews Reply with quote
Alexandru wrote:

I want that the sitemap also contains hreflang as recommended by Google:


Since it is recommended by google how should that be duplicated content to the crawler since you separate the urls?
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Alexandru



Joined: 26 May 2015
Posts: 8
PostPosted: Thu 11 Jun '15 20:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
Google recommends to use hreflang but it does not explicitly shows how: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en. Or at least I didn't get it.

The question is simple: Since http://www.mydomain.de/index and http://www.mydomain.de/index.en will return the same content, it will be interpreted as a duplicated content, or not?
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