Multiple entries for a single language/region combination can cause issues with your hreflang tag.
The solution here is to delete each duplicated hreflang entry. Luckily, there’s a way to do this at scale. Here’s how.
There should never be multiple entries for a single language/region combo.
If more than one URL is specified for the same language and country, Googlebot will ignore all of them because there is no clear message about which page should be indexed for this language version.
If your hreflang tags have multiple entries with various languages/regions, you’ll want to delete the extras that don’t belong.
While this can be done directly through the CMS, you may not have direct access to make such a change. The dev team may have to get involved.
A quick three-step process is all it takes to remove duplicate hreflang entries.
SEO execution and automation platform ClarityAutomate lets you implement site changes, all without having to wait for the dev team.
Here’s how to do it.
Once you’ve deleted the extra hreflang entries, you can push your changes live to resolve the issue. To solve this at scale, leverage an SEO execution platform, resolving this issue in a few minutes, not days or weeks.