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Last updated by Christopher Amirian 1 year, 9 months ago.

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June 3, 2022 at 2:40 pm #11384165

lobkeB

Hi there,

Last year we set up our website hidden link . We used WPML to translate these websites for hidden link / hidden link / hidden link etc. etc. We have our website now active in 10 European countries.

Somehow the websites in all countries are found quit well in the Google-rankings, but unfortunately our Dutch website (default website / hidden link ) not at all on the main keywords like 'verwarmde sokken' , 'verwarmde handschoenen' and 'verwarmde zolen'.
In all other countries we rank on position 5-15 with these keywords, but in our home-country (The Netherlands) not at all.

We have checked so many things already, we updated the system to the latest version etc.

I understand that it normally takes some time for indexation. But the website is active now for 10 months or so and in all other countries there are rankings......but not in NL. Google Search Console tells me that for example the URL hidden link is indexed and should be in position 5......but we are not there. So it seems that our website/system tells Google not to show specific pages. As all websites in all countries are the same, it is absolutely strange.

The only last thing I can think of it has to do with the following:

1) the Dutch website is the default-website.......could that be a problem??
2) the HREF-langtags are installed in the source-code of course, but maybe WPML overrules these, or so?
3) what also strange is, is that Google Search Console 'says' it is seeing our URL hidden link as the main URL above the Dutch URL hidden link . In our HREF-langtags we tell Google perfectly that .NL is for the Dutch market and that the .BE-domain is for Belgium.

Hopefully you have heard this story more often and do you have suggestions to solve this matter?

If you need the login to do further research, you are more then welcome.
Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Lobke Buijs
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June 5, 2022 at 10:59 am #11390129

Christopher Amirian
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)

Hi there,

1) The Dutch language is the default one should not have anything to do with Google indexing.

2) Hreflang attribute is the only attribute available for WPML to show Google which language is the language of the page and what the translated paged are.

3) The hreflang attribute for BE website is:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl-nl" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-fr" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-de" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl-be" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="da-dk" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nb-no" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="sv-se" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-at" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-ch" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />

As you can see the hreflangs are correct and show each language version. Also the X-Default which is the indication of the main website is set to NL which is expected.

Now here is the NL code:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl-nl" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-fr" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-de" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl-be" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="da-dk" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nb-no" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="sv-se" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-at" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-ch" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="<em><u>hidden link</u></em>" />

Again, everything is added correctly and that is the most WPML plugin can do, which is adding the guidance to Google to know which version of the page has which language.

Other than that, the SEO plugin is responsible for such rankings and stuff and you are welcome to ask the plugin support that you use.

Thank you.

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