hreflang unknown target

info hreflang-unknown-target hreflang and language versions

The cluster points at a URL that is not among the pages found. Either a version was removed and the template still declares it, or the addresses drifted apart.

What indexgap reports

The finding reads:

info  hreflang-unknown-target  the alternate … is not among the parsed pages — reciprocity cannot be verified

How to fix it

Remove the addresses that are not among the site's pages from the cluster, or correct them. Right now the cluster points at nothing, and a search engine is entitled to disregard it entirely.

How it behaves at scale

Reported per page even when it is common. Appearing on many pages is the nature of this finding rather than evidence of one template defect, so collapsing it would hide real work.

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.

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