XML Href Lang Setup

[Iannaude]

Hi, currently I have created an XML Href Lang site map for the main .com website. Lets call it projectx.com in this XML href lang file I have indicated that there is also a projectx.co.uk version of the site.

Question: Would the XML HREF LANG sitemap file be uploaded to the root of the main projectx.com only? or would another version need to be uploaded to the projectx.co.uk root too?

Thanks in advance!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Yes, you would basically create on all sites that you're linking to a XML sitemaps file to make sure Google will know where to find the links and to see where they belong to. Hope that helps!

[danatanseo]

Martijn's answer is correct. To elaborate: You must include the XML sitemaps on all the sitemaps referenced in that same sitemap. If you don't, Google Search Console will identify return tag errors. Every url in your sitemap that references an equivalent URL on another country's site, must have a correlating "return" URL coming back to the originating pages from tthe hreflang XML sitemap associated with that other country's site.