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hreflang

Definition: An HTML attribute that tells search engines what language a page is intended for and which region it is intended for, for example, de-DE German in Germany, de-AT for German in Austria.

Everyday analogy: Like the language label on a book cover: “This edition is for readers in Austria; the German-Swiss edition is on the next shelf.”

How we use it: For multilingual sites, we check hreflang consistency during our SEO audit, incorrect or missing tags cause Google to display the wrong language version.

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