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(Entry was posted by Valentina Huff on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/10/2014).

Is Hreflang good for a site that`s in English?

Is Hreflang good for a site that`s in English but serves people in English-speaking regions other than America like Canada, England, etc. ??
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  • Valentina Huff: Is Hreflang good for a site that's in English but serves people in English-speaking regions other than America like Canada, England, etc. ?
  • Federico Sasso: Are you serving multiple English versions of the same content, differentiated by locale? If so, yes. alternate/hreflang is the proper tool to help the search engine serving the best content to each English speaking user, and to avoid duplicate content issues.
    In such case, you would want to use values as "en-GB", "en-CA", etc.

    On the other side, in case you are only serving one single version of the pages for your site in English, then you don't really need alternate/hreflang (it only makes sense with multiple versions of the pages).

    P.S.: not strictly related to alternate/hrefang and language localization, but make sure not to use GWT geo-targeting, if you want to target audience from multiple countries. A generic top level domain is needed (e.g. .com)
  • Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:21:43 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/is_hreflang_good_for_a_site_thats_in_english +Valentina Huff

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  • Valentina Huff: Thank you +Federico Sasso ;!

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