Can multiple geotargeting hreflang tags be set in one URL? International SEO question

[Onedirect_uk]

​Hi All,

I have a question please.

If i target www.onedirect.co.nl/en/ in English for Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg, are the tags below correct?

English for Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg:

http://www.example.co.nl/en/" hreflang="en-nl" />

http://www.example.co.nl/en/" hreflang="en-be" />

http://www.example.co.nl/en/" hreflang="en-lu" />

AND Targeting Holland and Belgium in Dutch:

Pour la page www.onedirect.co.nl on peut inclure ce tag:

http://www.example.co.nl" hreflang="nl-nl" />

http://www.example.co.nl" hreflang="nl-be" />

thanks a lot for your help!

[LoganRay]

Hi,

In this instance, since you're targeting multiple countries but the same language, it's acceptable to only specify the language in the hreflang tag, and leave the country out. For example:

[Onedirect_uk]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer, however i do not want to market the products to the US for instance, how can i do this?

Thanks,

[LoganRay]

With your .co.nl TLD, it's unlikely that you'd get much (if any) visibility in U.S. Google.

You could also do the following:

• Specify your primary country in Search Console
• Use sitemaps to identify targeted countries: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en

[NickJasuja]

loganr is right. There is no point in repeating the same URL for multiple English variants. Just use "en" and "nl" and 1 Hreflang entry per URL.

Another thing you could do is create multiple URLs for each of your variants. e.g. example.co.uk for en-GB, example.be for en-BE and so on. But unless you have really customized the content for each of these variants to be truly geography-specific, you are better off consolidating everything under 1 English URL. Otherwise Google will think you've got duplicate content. See example.

[Onedirect_uk]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your help. I will then use one hreflang per URL.

Cheers,