My translated pages are categorized as subpages of the originals / Importance of hreflang tags

[Jess_Smunch]

Hi there

We have a website that is originally in German, but has an English translation for all pages.
I recently created a crawl map for it, which showed that all our translated pages are indexed as subpages of the German originals. I wonder if this is normal, or if it will have a negative impact on our SEO.

If they are subpages, will Google still index and rank them with the same importance as the originals?
If not, what can I do to make them standalone pages and not subpages?

Also, we have a few issues with hreflang tags that we cannot fix easily as our CMS does not give us a flexible option for editing our code. I wonder how much impact hreflang tags have on our ranking and if we can just disregards these issues?

We use Hubspot as a CMS, if that matters.

Thanks for your feedback!

[katemorris]

Hreflang will help guide Google to understand the association of the pages. Rather than add another sitemap for the English pages, I recommend updating your current sitemap to include hreflang tags to the english content.

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