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I have a website where all pages have two languages. For every pair of pages I have this between the head tags: This connects pages with the same content in two languages (sub-pages have their own urls).

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The question is for websites in just English, the webmaster tools complains "Your site has no hreflang tags". Is it possible to set this tag for one language sites?

Thanks

I'm sorry I am not familiar with the hreflang tag.

Thanks. The hreflang tag is probably not used for a single language site.

Just a tip: The host may automatically change the link mywebsite.com/sv into this mywebsite.com/sv/ with the ending slash. Then the code should have the slash or a search engine can't find the pages.

Here are more useful reading material on the hreflang topic, and a testing tool: http://hreflang.org/

And to answer my original question above the hreflang tag is only useful two or more languages. It can also be used for targeting different regions (for example en-AU and en-CA) but if all English pages has the same content Google may decide to show just one version in search.

Additional info,

- For a generic .com site in English with a Spanish language .com/es/ alternative, only a single link on each page to the alternative should be enough (self-referencing is not necessary). It's ok to have two hreflang tags like my example above though.

- For multiple language sites all sets of hreflang tags should be the same on the pages, including self-referencing.

Reference doc: https://support.google.com/webmasters/a ... 9077?hl=en