Hreflang tag implementation

[WeAreDigital_BE]

Hi Mozzers,

For an international client, we want to install hreflang tags for 3 different languages for their website in Belgium: dutch, french and english.

The dutch version (nl-be) and the french version (fr-be) can perfectly be installed, but our developer has troubles implementing the english version (en-be).

According to  ISO 639-1 , "en-be" is apparently not supported.

Unfortunately, we can't generalize the hreflang tags (), because our client has different websites in each country, so we need to specifically target Belgium here.

Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks,
Jens

[netzkern_AG]

You cannot set en-be in any way? This would be correct for targeting "people with English settings in Belgium" or "English content for users in Belgium", regardless whether it is in the ISO standard or not. Cf. Google's help document: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077

[mcyi8aa2]

Yes, the region is ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 which allows for 'BE'. The language portion is ISO 639-1 which allows for 'en'. Hreflang tag can contain both of these ISO abbreviation standards together.

[WeAreDigital_BE]

Thanks for your answers and helping us out guys!