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    Google does not index UK version of our site, and serves US version instead. Do I need to remove hreflanguage for US?

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    • VERBInteractive
      VERBInteractive last edited by

      Odd, are you seeing any errors in Google Search Console (use to be Google webmaster tools) under Search Traffic/International Targeting. It will show any hreflang errors, I would start there and fix any errors.

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      • lcourse
        lcourse last edited by

        everything looks fine  in google search console.

        no hreflang errors, no sitemap errors and google crawls every day basically all our pages for many months already.

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        • VERBInteractive
          VERBInteractive last edited by

          Well at least we checked off one thing that it is not. 🙂

          Can you provide a link to the SERP where you are seeing the issue?

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          • lcourse
            lcourse @VERBInteractive last edited by

            Sure, click on cached version of the first result in the following google search. Also you see here the rich snippets in USD instead of GBP:

            https://www.google.es/search?q=site%3Ahumidordiscount.co.uk&oq=site%3Ahumidordiscount.co.uk&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.6216j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=site:humidordiscount.co.uk+firenze

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            • VERBInteractive
              VERBInteractive last edited by

              odd, looks to pull the cached schema, the issue might correct itself with time.

              It's a bit of a long shot, but have you tried the lang/country codes completely in lower case? I doubt that will fix it but the tool in this Moz article I found (https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool) generates them in all lower case.

              Also out of curiosity are you doing your test searches through a VPN?

              https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool

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              • lcourse
                lcourse @VERBInteractive last edited by

                Happens already for many months.

                Good idea to test with VPN. I just gave it a try with a UK proxy  and same result.

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                • VERBInteractive
                  VERBInteractive last edited by

                  Very odd, when we do a search for "Adorini Firenze - Deluxe" in google UK with a VPN on for the UK it doesn't get any of the price schema markup. Maybe google is having a hard time deciding what to do with the schema so for normal results it doesn't pull any of the schema. What KW are ranking for this page? do you get similar results as us?

                  https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Adorini Firenze - Deluxe&oq=Adorini Firenze - Deluxe&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i60l2.943j0j7&rct=j

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                  • lcourse
                    lcourse @VERBInteractive last edited by

                    Thanks for checking. Yes, rich snippets are frequently not showing currently, however this is a different issue and it may be temporary.

                    My primary concern is rather that google does not index our sitemap for this domain according to search console and related that they show the .com page as cached version of the .uk page.

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                    • VERBInteractive
                      VERBInteractive last edited by

                      Do your sitemaps indicate the varying languages. See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en

                      https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en

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                      • lcourse
                        lcourse @VERBInteractive last edited by

                        No.

                        But in theroy it should not make a difference.
                        hreflang can be either implemented in sitemap or in page.

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                        • VERBInteractive
                          VERBInteractive last edited by

                          Worth a try, specifically since nothing else seems to be working at this point.

                          Sorry I couldn't be more help. Please let us know what the solution is when ever you figure it out.

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                          • lcourse
                            lcourse @VERBInteractive last edited by

                            Thanks. Will post an update once we figured out this riddle.

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                            • Christy-Correll
                              Christy-Correll last edited by

                              Hi there, have you been able to figure out this riddle yet -- or are you still working on it? We'd love an update!

                              Christy 🙂

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                              • lcourse
                                lcourse @Christy-Correll last edited by

                                Hi Christy, not yet.

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