Hreflang and possible duplicate content SEO issue

[poiseo]

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Hey community, my first question here

Imagine there is a page with video, it has hreflang tags setup, to lead let's say German visitors to /de/ folder... So, on that German version of page, everything like menus, navigation and such are in German, but the video is the same, the title of the video (H1 tag) is the same, <title></code></strong> and <strong><code>meta description</code></strong> is the same as on the original English page. It means that general (English) page and German version of it has the same key content in English.</p> <p>To me it seems to be a SEO duplicate content issue. As I know, Google doesn't think that content is duplicate, if it is properly translated to other language.</p> <p>Does my explained case mean that the content will be detected by Google as duplicate?</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></title>

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[Andy.Drinkwater]

So just to understand, the German page has the same title, etc, in English? Or is this in German?

Either way, hfreflang deals pretty well with issues like this and you can have two pages virtually identical, but with a few differences for a different audience.

It sounds like you fall into this category...

"Your content has small regional variations with** similar content in a single language**. For example, you might have English-language content targeted to the US, GB, and Ireland"

-Andy

[poiseo]

Andy,

German page has menu, tags, social stuff and such things in German language, but the actual content: <title>, meta tags, h1, text description under the video in ENGLISH - the same English data across all the languages.</p> <p>Are you sure that I'm "safe" with this?</p> <p>Also, do I need to place a Canonical reference to the original English page?</p></title>

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Well, Google say you are, and this is what it's used for The snippet from that page explains exactly what you are trying to do.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

No, you want to self canonicalise as well - remember, each page will be seen as unique in Google's eyes.

-Andy