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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, 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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