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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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