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    • edward-may
      edward-may @Yeeply.com last edited by

      Thats alot Luis will make this update and take out the default! Will let you know once I have updated it!

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      • edward-may
        edward-may @DirkC last edited by

        Hey Dirk

        Thanks again for your advice and sharing the above links - this definitely makes more sense!

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        • edward-may
          edward-may @Yeeply.com last edited by

          Hi Luis

          I looked at he language declarations you pointed out - can you further explain what I have done incorrectly here?  The difference I can see is I have used "Capitals" lang='en-NZ**'>** and lang**='en-AU****'>** instead of lang**='en-nz****'>** and lang**='en-au****'>** am I understanding this correctly?

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          • Yeeply.com
            Yeeply.com @edward-may last edited by

            Hello Justin,

            Yes, you are right 🙂

            Let me tell you that ISO codes normally come represented in lower-case. I am almost sure this is not your problem, since html code is no case sensitive, but it's a good practice! 🙂

            Luis

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            • edward-may
              edward-may @Yeeply.com last edited by

              Thanks so much Luis, ill report back to you once iv done the changes and see how it goes - I do remember when were making the changes to the hreflang tags the first time - my developer told me the ruby system was automatically changing back to what is currently showing, could that be possible?

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              • edward-may
                edward-may @Yeeply.com last edited by

                Hi Luis

                Here is the update:

                www.zenory.com,  www.zenory.co.nz and www.zenory.com.au

                Let me know your thoughts and if I have done everything correctly?

                Cheers

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                • edward-may
                  edward-may @DirkC last edited by

                  Hi Dirk

                  Iv applied your recommendation, however our ruby system keeps converting it to its current status - but I took the default setting out!

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                  • Yeeply.com
                    Yeeply.com @edward-may last edited by

                    Hi Justin,

                    Nope, it's not implemented properly. For your three domains I see the 3 hreflang language specifications is the same "en-us".

                    You can see this by checking the source code of all of them.

                    Luis

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                    • DirkC
                      DirkC last edited by

                      Hi Justin,

                      The tags are now completely wrong - on the .com version it lists (seems the same on .com.au & the .co.nz)

                      Not really that technical, but check with your programmer - he must be able to find a way to get this right. The x-default is not that important in your case I guess as you mainly target these 3 markets. If you can't fix it it's better to take them off because now you're sending a very confusing message to Google (for en-us it now has the choice between 3 url's - and for the other languages there is no alternate url mentioned...)

                      rgds

                      Dirk

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                      • edward-may
                        edward-may @Yeeply.com last edited by

                        Thanks Luis for pointing that out - my developer said it was his mistake and have no updated - is it correct now?

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                        • edward-may
                          edward-may @DirkC last edited by

                          Hi Dirk

                          Thank for that! I have updated it - my developer said he made the mistake of not updated all and have no updated it so hopefully its correct!

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                          • DirkC
                            DirkC last edited by

                            Hi Justin,

                            I fear I made a mistake in the url's - you have to use the full url

                            Sorry.

                            Dirk

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                            • edward-may
                              edward-may @DirkC last edited by

                              ahhh don't worries at all Dirk 🙂 I will update them soon! Thank you for double checking for 🙂

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                              • Yeeply.com
                                Yeeply.com @edward-may last edited by

                                Hello Justin,

                                https://www.zenory.com.au It's OK

                                https://www.zenory.com Not OK

                                https://www.zenory.co.nz Not OK

                                Luis

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                                • DirkC
                                  DirkC last edited by

                                  Justin,

                                  Seems to be ok now  - tested the 3 url's and all are ok (homepage)

                                  Don't forget to update the pages inside the site:

                                  Example: https://www.zenory.com/tarot-readings

                                  Here the hreflang should become

                                  Currently they all point to the homepage.

                                  rgds,

                                  Dirk

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                                  • edward-may
                                    edward-may @DirkC last edited by

                                    Thanks Dirk, ill update them now!!!

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                                    • edward-may
                                      edward-may @Yeeply.com last edited by

                                      Hi Luis,

                                      Thanks for your response! So I managed to update all urls with the correct hreftags and submitted a new sitemap also have used google fetch to index the pages - I went to do a search in australia and it is still showing the new zealand meta tag description can you take a look?  Or something I'm doing wrong here?

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