Top level domains showing wrong meta tag des in different country

[edward-may]

Hi Everyone

I have 3 top level domains - and its showing up my meta tag description in USA and Australia search for my NEW ZEALAND meta tag description.  Not sure whats going on, but now that im ranking for all top level domains in those countries it looks weird having a NZ in the Search when its a USA and AUSTRALIA domain name.  See the attachments

Cheers

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[Yeeply.com]

Hello Justin,

1. Could you replace your current hreflang declaration with this piece of code at your 3 different domains? (no more x-default setting)

SEE IMAGE 1

2. Could you update the language declaration on top of the source code at your 3 domains? Pay attention, only one per domain!

SEE IMAGE 2

Please, change this and let's wait for some results!

I hope this will solve the problem,

Luis

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[DirkC]

Hi Justin

As Luis indicates - the hreflang is not properly implemented - which you can also test here: http://flang.dejanseo.com.au/

As mentioned in this post - https://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool you can generate the hreflang here: http://www.internationalseomap.com/hreflang-tags-generator/

Long story just to confirm that the suggestion of Luis is correct - update the hreflang to

should do the trick. If you want to have one as default for all other languages (suppose you want to show zenory.com as default when the language is not one of the three options, you add:

See example on http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages.html

Important: the tagging needs to be identical on all three sites and needs to be present on all pages (with the correct url of course).

Currently the x-default is different on all three sites which is confusing for Google.

rgds,

Dirk

[edward-may]

Thats alot Luis will make this update and take out the default! Will let you know once I have updated it!

[edward-may]

Hey Dirk

Thanks again for your advice and sharing the above links - this definitely makes more sense!

[edward-may]

Hi Luis

I looked at he language declarations you pointed out - can you further explain what I have done incorrectly here?  The difference I can see is I have used "Capitals" lang='en-NZ**'>** and lang**='en-AU****'>** instead of lang**='en-nz****'>** and lang**='en-au****'>** am I understanding this correctly?

[Yeeply.com]

Hello Justin,

Yes, you are right

Let me tell you that ISO codes normally come represented in lower-case. I am almost sure this is not your problem, since html code is no case sensitive, but it's a good practice!

Luis

[edward-may]

Thanks so much Luis, ill report back to you once iv done the changes and see how it goes - I do remember when were making the changes to the hreflang tags the first time - my developer told me the ruby system was automatically changing back to what is currently showing, could that be possible?

[edward-may]

Hi Luis

Here is the update:

www.zenory.com,  www.zenory.co.nz and www.zenory.com.au

Let me know your thoughts and if I have done everything correctly?

Cheers

[edward-may]

Hi Dirk

Iv applied your recommendation, however our ruby system keeps converting it to its current status - but I took the default setting out!

[Yeeply.com]

Hi Justin,

Nope, it's not implemented properly. For your three domains I see the 3 hreflang language specifications is the same "en-us".

You can see this by checking the source code of all of them.

Luis

[DirkC]

Hi Justin,

The tags are now completely wrong - on the .com version it lists (seems the same on .com.au & the .co.nz)

Not really that technical, but check with your programmer - he must be able to find a way to get this right. The x-default is not that important in your case I guess as you mainly target these 3 markets. If you can't fix it it's better to take them off because now you're sending a very confusing message to Google (for en-us it now has the choice between 3 url's - and for the other languages there is no alternate url mentioned...)

rgds

Dirk

[edward-may]

Thanks Luis for pointing that out - my developer said it was his mistake and have no updated - is it correct now?

[edward-may]

Hi Dirk

Thank for that! I have updated it - my developer said he made the mistake of not updated all and have no updated it so hopefully its correct!

[DirkC]

Hi Justin,

I fear I made a mistake in the url's - you have to use the full url

Sorry.

Dirk

[edward-may]

ahhh don't worries at all Dirk I will update them soon! Thank you for double checking for

[Yeeply.com]

Hello Justin,

https://www.zenory.com.au It's OK

https://www.zenory.com Not OK

https://www.zenory.co.nz Not OK

Luis

[DirkC]

Justin,

Seems to be ok now  - tested the 3 url's and all are ok (homepage)

Don't forget to update the pages inside the site:

Example: https://www.zenory.com/tarot-readings

Here the hreflang should become

Currently they all point to the homepage.

rgds,

Dirk

[edward-may]

Thanks Dirk, ill update them now!!!

[edward-may]

Hi Luis,

Thanks for your response! So I managed to update all urls with the correct hreftags and submitted a new sitemap also have used google fetch to index the pages - I went to do a search in australia and it is still showing the new zealand meta tag description can you take a look?  Or something I'm doing wrong here?