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Hreflang Tags Missing on Multilingual Site on WordPress

Page appears to target multiple languages or regions but lacks hreflang annotations, which help search engines serve the correct version to users.

Issue ID: TECH-HREFLANG-PRESENT-001Severity: minorEffort: M

Why this matters

Page appears to target multiple languages or regions but lacks hreflang annotations, which help search engines serve the correct version to users. This affects crawlability, rendering, and whether the site can be interpreted correctly by search engines.

WordPress fix path

How to fix this on WordPress

These are usually theme-level fixes.

  1. 1Check your active theme or page builder output.
  2. 2Update the relevant setting or theme template.
  3. 3Clear caches and confirm the rendered HTML changed.

After you fix it

  • View page source and confirm hreflang tags are present for all language versions

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