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Canonical and hreflangs are always full url and you can't use relative addresses: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/localized-versions?hl=en "Alternate URLs must be fully-qualified, including the transport method (http/https), so: https://example.com/foo, not //example.com/foo or /foo" https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls So you need to remake your example with full URLs like: protocol://domain (with or withour WWW.)/path/to/some/folder/ Also avoid geotargeting for IP.  This can went you on deep issues since Googlebot is crawling mostly from US IP. Therefore Google NEVER can see your UK links. Source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/locale-adaptive-pages?hl=en "If your site has locale-adaptive pages (that is, your site returns different content based on the perceived country or preferred language of the visitor), Google might not crawl, index, or rank all your content for different locales. This is because the default IP addresses of the Googlebot crawler appear to be based in the USA. In addition, the crawler sends HTTP requests without setting Accept-Language in the request header." Regards, Peter