Do href lang tags need to be implemented at blogpost level?

[Twetman]

Hey guys,

Our site targets multiple territories. We use subfolders and hreflang tags on the site (built in WordPress) at a page level. We've added our hreflang tags manually in the section of each page.

We're just re-doing the blog and we want to know if we need to add these tags to each individual blog post and if we do, how we would do it? Our developers have put them in at blog landing page level and told us that this will be fine. E.g.:

• /de/blog/
• /gb/blog/
• /uc/blog/

They have a slight tendency to push back on things though, and we just want to be sure we're doing this right. Hreflang tags are sooooo complicated so hoping you fine people can shed some light on the issue.

Cheers!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

Yes! You would need to do this for every specific post that you have as Google (and other search engines) would like to know about the specifics of 1 URL to see where the copies of that one are in multiple languages. A feature that I could imagine is that you would have an input field for multipe languages. If the URL structures + language always have the same way of being structured you can make sure to automate this. Usually HREF lang is something that you have your developers code into your codebase.

Martijn.