Does Rogerbot recognize rel="alternate" hreflang="x"?

[sedwards]

Rogerbot just completed its first crawl and is reporting all kinds of duplicate content - both page content and meta title/description.

The pages it is calling duplicate are used with  rel="alternate" hreflang="x", but are still being labeled as dupes.

The title and descriptions are usually exactly the same, so I am working on getting at least those translated into different languages.

I think its getting tripped up because the product page its crawling are only in English, but the chrome of the site is in the translated languages. The URLs look like so:

Original: site.com/product

Detected duplicates: site.com/fr/product, site.com/de/product, site.com/zh-hans/product

[Nick_Sayers]

Hey there,

Rogerbot doesn't look for rel alts. The bot will follow meta robots, rel canonical (more used way to controlling duplicate content) and 301 redirects. Sorry about the confusion.

Best,

Nick