Background of the issue:
I am trying to understand the benefits and reasons for the new approach of the Ahreflang policy on my site hidden link. I am following the documentation provided by WPML.
Symptoms:
No specific issue or error message mentioned.
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Adding hreflang tags in the XML sitemap source, as WPML does, is SEO best practice. It provides a centralized, efficient, and reliable way for search engines to understand multilingual site structures, without affecting frontend user experience or HTML performance.
Benefits are:
1. Search engines like Google and Bing read XML sitemaps directly for crawling and indexing. Including hreflang tags in the raw XML provides them with a clean and centralized reference for all language versions.
This reduces the need for search engines to crawl each individual page to detect alternate language versions via HTML headers.
2. Improved International SEO
Increases the likelihood that the correct language version appears in local search results.
3. Clean HTML Code
Keeping hreflang declarations in the XML sitemap avoids bloating the page HTML with extra <link rel="alternate" hreflang="..."> tags.
This can help slightly reduce page weight and speed up load times.
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Hope this helps.
Regards,
Drazen
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