hreflang missing

The site has versions in several languages and this page does not say so. Search engines then treat the versions as competitors rather than alternatives, and may show the wrong one to the wrong country.

What indexgap reports

The finding reads:

warning  hreflang-missing  a page at the same path exists in another language (…), and this one declares no alternate at all. If it is a translation, link them with hreflang; if each market has its own text, there is nothing to link

How to fix it

How it behaves at scale

Collapsed when it fires template-wide. If it appears on 90% or more of the pages — or of one language version — of a site with at least 20 pages, it is a property of the template and is reported once, with the count, instead of once per page.

Finding it

pipx install indexgap
cd your-project
indexgap init
indexgap check

Then indexgap brief turns every finding on this page into a work order in indexgap-briefs/, with the thresholds the result has to satisfy and the command to check it.

Related checks in hreflang and language versions

• translations-parkedtranslations parked
• hreflang-no-selfhreflang no self
• hreflang-no-returnhreflang no return
• hreflang-bad-codehreflang bad code
• hreflang-unknown-targethreflang unknown target
• hreflang-lang-mismatchhreflang lang mismatch
• hreflang-canonical-conflicthreflang canonical conflict
• hreflang-target-blockedhreflang target blocked
• hreflang-static-clusterhreflang static cluster

All checks · hreflang and language versions