How to use rel=alternate and hreflang=es to help with International SEO?

[Krtya]

We have completed translating our important pages from English to Spanish on our website. I am confused if I should be adding attributes like rel=alternate and hreflang=es to links. On our homepage we have links to our solution pages and the code looks like this:

<a  href="https://www.membroz.com/es/club-management-software/">...</a >

<a  href="https://www.membroz.com/es/salon-management-software/">...</a >

<a  href="https://www.membroz.com/es/pre-school-management-software/">...</a >

Should I add the attributes rel & hreflang to them? It would look something like this:

...

<a <span>rel="alternate" hreflang="es"</a <span> href="https://www.membroz.com/es/salon-management-software/">...

<a <span>rel="alternate" hreflang="es"</a <span> href="https://www.membroz.com/es/pre-school-management-software/">...

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

You don't have to do both, I would focus on making sure you have the LINK tags in the top of your HEAD so you can make sure that right away Google picks up on these signals. You can read more about that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en you don't necessarily have to specify it per link in your actual content.

[BlueprintMarketing]

If you have any doubts I  I agree with what Martijn has said.

Also, you can validate that there in the header using this

1. https://validator.w3.org/

• For more up to date references (if needed)
• https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
• https://ahrefs.com/blog/hreflang-tags/
• tools https://www.aleydasolis.com/english/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/

Hope this is been of some help,

Tom