Re: hreflang implementation for php.net

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Joost de Valk <joost@yoast.com> wrote: > Hey, > > in recent days I've started noticing Google serving the wrong page for > specific functions in the search results. It served me the german and > portuguese versions of page when I was clearly searching in english with a > browser that's set to english. I think this could be helped by implementing > hreflang across php.net: > > https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en > > because of how the php.net structure works, I think this could actually be > quite simple for large groups of pages, for instance, this page: > > http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.version-compare.php > > would have hreflang tags like this, the first one being self referencing: > > <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href=" > http://php.net/manual/en/function.version-compare.php" > /> > <link rel="alternate" hreflang="pt-BR" href=" > http://php.net/manual/pt_BR/function.version-compare.php" > /> > <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href=" > http://php.net/manual/es/function.version-compare.php" > /> > <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href=" > http://php.net/manual/de/function.version-compare.php" > /> > > (Leaving out the us2. subdomain so people would redirect to their > appropriate servers) > > etc. > > You could also add a redirector URL like this: > > <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href=" > http://php.net/manual/function.version-compare.php" /> > > Which Google would then send people to if it didn't know what the correct > language for that person is. > > Would be happy to provide help / more info if needed! > Uhmm.... ...I don't know what to say. Clearly we should be supporting this. Added it now: http://news.php.net/php.webmaster/19173 Thanks for the headsup! -Hannes