I am receiving an error in the SEMRush site audit report, the error is No self-referencing hreflang. Please find the attached screenshot and help me with this to resolve the issue.
Everything is in order so here are my recommendations:
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2. Purge all your caches (including server caches and CDN)
3. Rescan your site with SEMRush.
If the issue persist, please ask for more details and share them in this ticket.
Can you please share more details with us? I would recommend to contact their support to know exactly what is the issue here.
I checked again and the hreflangs I shared in my previous answer are still here. So I don't know how they can claim that the "self referencing hreflang" is missing when I can confirm that <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="hidden link" /> is in the source code!
Do you use some sort of automatic redirection depending on the browser language? Maybe SEMRush Bot/crawler is redirected automatically to your English version? Looking at your debug file, that wouldn't be related to WPML as I can see that the option "WPML > Languages > Browser language redirect" is disabled.
Thanks for the update. Please come back to me when their support give you more information about that warning because it doesn't reflect what you have in your source code.
Hi, I contacted the SEMRush support, please find their reply
If we compare the link that our crawler found, it's hidden link without the trailing slash at the end. Our bot will compare the exact URL and mark it as an error, since the / is not in the normal path!
