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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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