MOZ Crawl Reports hreflang vs Duplicate content

[pablo_carrara]

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[seomozinator]

Hello, Ana.

As Terminator said (read with proper accent): "Old, not obsolete!. And surely not not-used at the present time. Google does use 301s and canonical to understand informational architecture of the website.

About duplicate content on hreflang pages - so, those pages are in different languages?

[pablo_carrara]

Hi Charles,

The pages are in the same language, but hreflang is not used only to differientiate languages, also for different regional versions of the same site, I ve been reading and reading about this, talked to people from Backazimuth, talked to people from Google and this should be fine. If you have two versions  for two different countries and you show the same layout and more or less the same content, hreflang should fix the duplicate content issue, since in this case there is no canonical version.

Bests,

PS: I said it´s rather old, since it doesn´t include information of hreflangs for example.

Pablo

[Sean_Peerenboom]

Hi Pablo,

Thanks for writing us and I hope this message finds you well! Unfortunately, although we really love our crawler we do not have a means of picking up an hreflag. Compared to Google our crawler does not have the same level of sophistication so we still rely heavily upon 301 redirects and rel canonicals.

Hopefully we can continue to develop the tool moving forward, though for now we a bit a stuck. If you have any questions for me please let me know.

For now though I wish you a fantastic day and look forward to speaking with you!

[pablo_carrara]

Hi Sean,

Good answer, there are two problems though, if Moz can not get too accurate to report a problem at least they should warn that if hreflang is used properly the duplicate content issue doesn t apply. On the other hand when you go to Moz Learn, you dont mention anything about hreflangs. So, what you guess from your reports and documentation is that you should change your site.

Best,

Pablo

[MattRoney]

Thanks so much for the feedback, Pablo! We'll see if there's anything we can do to make that more clear.