Use hreflang for language and regional URLs

[the-gate-films]

I have implemented hreflang on site, seen here http://www.cobaltrecruitment.com/ but Webmaster Tools is returning loads of errors in the international targeting area..... "'“en-sg"' - unknown language code" and "'“en-ar"' - unknown language code"

Can anyone suggest what I need to tell my developers to do?

Thanks for your help!

[TomRayner]

Hi there

Looks like when you've been adding the code, you've pasted in special characters or something like that.  This is why you're getting the “en-sg" error.

If you look at the source code in Chrome, you can see the code is italicised:

http://i.imgur.com/IfTwvpj.png

What I'd do is retype the code manually, or remove any special formatting from the text before adding it into your HTML.  You want to just get the raw quotation mark in there ("), rather than the special character.

Hope that makes sense

[Mobilio]

Yes - in Unicode there are too many quotes and seems that pasting different quote make test OK for humans but garbage for bots and browsers.

[the-gate-films]

Hi Guys,

Can you please check that I now have the code correctly on the site? http://www.cobaltrecruitment.com/

The errors are still appearing for some reason in Webmaster Tools.

Thanks,