I think that Google incorrectly flagged my href lang return tags as missing. What do I do?

[pimarketing]

Hi there SEOs and other respected online marketing enthusiasts!

Since a short while Google Webmaster Tools is flagging my href lang return tags as missing. However, these tags are available in the html and there should be no issue whatsoever. I often see other bogus flags raised by Google but this one is bothering us in particular. This is the code that we use for all our 18 languages:

All pages link to all other languages variables.

Is there something I'm missing? Or is it just an error on Google's site - and if so, how do I flag it as fixed?

href lang no return tag incorrectly error in webmaster tools

[Keszi]

Hi,

Try out your page with Flang tool. Maybe it will give a better insight what you are missing out.

We cannot do more without a link that we can inspect

BTW: common mistake, do you have a self reference? It is needed in order to hreflang to work well.

Keszi

[pimarketing]

Thanks for your reply, this is an example url:

This is the holidaycars newyork page for the german language.

That tool is great, but i'm not sure how this occurs: the "Hreflang attributes don't match ( != de)"

[Keszi]

What I would try out, is including a self reference also.

So next to your hreflang there would appear a new hreflang, such as:

When we have implemented hreflang, we have also used a self reference, and I do not have any issues there.

I hope that helps.

Keszi

[Keszi]

Did it solve the issue?