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    • poiseo
      poiseo last edited by

      Hello, I have an interesting case and I am lost in it. There are two versions of the site: desktop and mobile. And there are also international versions: English and Spanish. I'm stuck at implementation of canonical tags. Currently my setup has the following:

      English (default) desktop page has these:

      English Mobile page has these:

      Spanish Desktop version:

      Spanish Mobile version:

      But I somewhat feel that I messed the things... Could you guys point me to what I did wrong and explain how to set it right? Also, if you know URLs of blog posts or articles, where similar case is explained - share with me please.

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      • OlegKorneitchouk
        OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

        Check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ce9jv91beQ

        English (default) desktop page has these:

        http://www.site.com/">
        http://www.site.com" hreflang="en">
        http://www.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">
        http://www.site.com" hreflang="x-default">
        http://m.site.com/" >

        English Mobile page has these:

        http://www.site.com/">
        http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">
        http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">
        http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">

        Spanish Desktop version:

        http://www.site.com/es/">
        http://www.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">
        http://www.site.com/" hreflang="en">
        http://www.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">
        http://m.site.com/es/" >

        Spanish Mobile version:

        http://www.site.com/es/"> http://m.site.com/es/" hreflang="es">
        http://m.site.com/" hreflang="en">
        http://m.site.com/" hreflang="x-default">

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        • poiseo
          poiseo last edited by

          Oleg,

          Why do you think canonical tag should be removed from mobile pages?

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          • OlegKorneitchouk
            OlegKorneitchouk @poiseo last edited by

            I don't think it should be removed, that's why I included it.

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            • poiseo
              poiseo @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

              Thanks.

              I hope to get more responses from others to see if they agree with your solution.

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              • poiseo
                poiseo @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                Oleg,

                did you change the order of the tags by intention? Canonical on top, x-default on bottom. Does the order matter?

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                • OlegKorneitchouk
                  OlegKorneitchouk @poiseo last edited by

                  Just for my own organization. I know that in all the Google examples, the x-default tag is at the bottom. Overall, I don't believe it makes a difference.

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