No self-referencing hreflang

Anaxo · March 2019

Our SEO tools prompts 200+ errors on a clients website with the error message

We tried to enable and disable the SEO and multi language settings of the theme, but we are facing a dead end.

Can you help with a fix?

THX

Bernhard

Bryan · March 2019

Hello,

please send us a link to this website.

thanks

Anaxo · March 2019

clearwaterbidets.com

/wp-admin

I deleted login as this post was public immediately ... set to private? are you not approving comment? can I contact you somewhere directly?

Pablo · March 2019

Hi,

Please open your website in Firefox html mode (CTRL+U) and check html errors you got. Please fix them first and all should be fine.

Thanks!

Anaxo · March 2019

Sorry, are you sure this answer belongs to our hreflag error request?

Pablo · March 2019

I do not understand.

You have a lot of HTML errors on your website, like not correct <img> tags (you typed the <image> which is not correct), few not closed brackets and a lot more.

Please take a look at your page source code and fix the problems.

I suggest to use the Firefox browser, it's colored red then.

http://prntscr.com/n3jmbc

Thanks

Anaxo · March 2019

We didn't build the website, but thanks for the input, we will pass this on to the webmaster.

We do the SEO for that website and we never saw such problem with a theme. Can you tell how these 200 hreflang errors can be corrected?

THX

Pablo · March 2019

Please fix these HTML errors first.

Also, we do not see these 200+ hreflang errors, we can see only two hreflang links on the beginning of the source code.

Can you show us some logs where these errors appear?

Thanks

Anaxo · April 2019

Here is the SemRush report. It's basically all pages, so there must be an easy fix.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YFbw3kQnjCsFDe6YQjlpchsVgo0jtYv5/view?usp=sharing

Bryan · April 2019

There are 200 erorrs but not for one page. Those errors do not make sense because you do have the hreflnag set up: http://prntscr.com/nh0xo3

Please fix your HTML erorrs first. You are using HTML markup like <image> which does not exist. Those errors may cause the audit to show wrong values.

thanks

Anaxo · April 2019

Our webmaster fixed the <img> tags but he also says there is no connection to these errors.

Unfortunately a new SEO audit on SemRush gives same results 206 hreflang errors.

We never had a theme with that error, would you please have another look, it must be only one little thing since it is obviously on almost all pages.

THX

Bryan · April 2019

Maybe if they could tell us what is exactly wrong and how to fix it, then it would be much easier.

We do not see any errors related with the hreflang on your page.

We cannot relay on some third party audit companies.

thanks

Anaxo · April 2019

We well go back to them again btw SemRush is the largest SEO platform worldwide, it should be in your interest as well, it is not "some" third party

Keep you posted.

B.

Pablo · April 2019

Please post your suggestion here:

https://forum.muffingroup.com/betheme/discussion/113/your-suggestions-for-future-updates#latest

We always appriciate all of the customer's ideas.

Thanks

Anaxo · April 2019

This came from SemRush, any comment how to correct to have the self reference? THX

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Dear Bernhard,
Thank you very much for getting back.
Your patience and understanding is much appreciated.

Let me try to clarify this issue.
After taking a closer look at your problem, I tried recrawling your domain on our side. Please, note that 206 issues got triggered correctly as hreflang implementation on pages mentioned in the report can be considered incorrect. According to our report, your pages have no self-referencing hreflang, which you can see on screenshots here and here. On Page Source screenshot you can see that link in hreflang is not self-referencing. In case you indeed wanted the index page to get all the link juice from mentioned pages, then I would kindly recommend to hide the issue from Site Audit as irrelevant. To avoid any conflicts, we recommend that you review your hreflang attributes within your page's source code and fix issues like conflicting hreflang and rel=canonical URLs or no self-referencing hreflang URLs.
Also, I would kindly recommend checking our Google's recommendations on hreflang implementation.

Kind regards,
Gleb Kutsyy

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Anaxo · May 2019

Anything? thx.

Bryan · May 2019

Hey,
This is correct, but this is a Wordpress core function. It generates those links in the header, and we do not interfere in it. We only have basic SEO options in our theme. Those hreflangs you talk about would need additional coding which does not fall under our support capabilities.
thanks

Anaxo · May 2019

We finally fixed it and hreflang is not a WordPress core function.

No self-referencing hreflang

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