hreflang
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The rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link attribute is a HTML meta element described in RFC 8288. Hreflang specifies the language and optional geographic restrictions for a document. Hreflang is interpreted by search engines and can be used by webmasters to clarify the lingual and geographical targeting of a website.
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Purpose
- Implementation
- Language and country codes
- Language script variations
- x-default
- Markup examples
- HTML
- HTTP
- XML sitemaps
- References
The rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link attribute is a HTML meta element described in RFC 8288. Hreflang specifies the language and optional geographic restrictions for a document. Hreflang is interpreted by search engines and can be used by webmasters to clarify the lingual and geographical targeting of a website.
== Purpose ==
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