Href Lang tags in audit

[BeckyKey]

Hi

I am getting a couple of issues flag with my href lang tags, but when I manually check the pages I can't see the issues.

Issue 1. No self referencing href lang tag example URL - http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/300kg-capacity-manutan-mobile-lift-table-lift-height-860mm-125h204

(these are SKU pages with duplicate content, so we have canonicals pointing to the main product page)

Issue 2. Conflicting hreflang and rel=canonical - http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/500kg-capacity-manutan-mobile-lift-table-lift-height-945mm-127h204

I have checked the source code of the pages with errors against the pages which don't have errors and they look the same - so I am unsure what's wrong?

[TimHolmes]

This response from John Doherty might help you out... https://moz.com/community/q/correct-hreflang-canonical-implementation-for-multilingual-site

One other thing of note was your bing webmaster tools configuration looked broken.

name="msvalidate.01" content="???MI386_BING_ID???"/>

[BeckyKey]

Great thank you, Ill check the bing tracking too!

[NickJasuja]

There isn't an error in the markup for the two pages that you shared. Hreflang markup on duplicate pages is useless so you will not lose anything by getting rid of hreflang on these pages. You can try deleting hreflang and see what happens. You only need hreflang on canonical versions of the page. (in your case it would be pages like http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/mobile-lift-tables and http://www.keyonline.ie/en/kie/mobile-lift-tables and not http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/300kg-capacity-manutan-mobile-lift-table-lift-height-860mm-125h204)

Or you can leave it as is and ignore the errors because duplicate pages should have no effect either way.

[BeckyKey]

Great thank you. I'm just unsure as to why they're flagging as errors anyway

Thank you!