When I check my site on google, I see a warn about hreflang tag. It says "Your site has no hreflang tags". I read documents but I confused. All examples about alternate languages for the websites. I wonder that Should I use hreflang tag for my single language page?
Google document is here
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I made my website on english language. It has now 1 language en and added the hreflang attributes.
There is no sitemap just the hreflang tags in html.
Most of the online tools see them but Google does not see them - it says in console - "Your site has no hreflang tags."
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I added hreflangs on all pages.
What am I doing wrong please?
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John. V
In a web page each registered company has own profile page with a list of records belonging to a company. I'm using Schema.org Organization structured data for that page and that schema markup requires URL property. As I understand it should contain e.g company home page url. The problem is that we do not store that kind of information.
If company profile URL in our page is: www.mypage.com/unique-company-profile can I use same url in schema URL property or it has to be an URL with a different domain?
Schema.org doesn’t require the url property for Organization (it never requires any property). Consumers (like Google Search) require properties for their features (like rich results). So, it’s perfectly fine to have an Organization without url; you might just not get a certain feature in a certain search engine.
As far as Schema.org is concerned, the url property can have a site-internal URL as value. A common structure is to use url for your own page about the organization, and sameAs for the organization’s official site.
<link itemprop="url" href="/organizations/acme" />
<a itemprop="sameAs" href="https://acme.example/">official site</a>
That said, again, a consumer might have certain restrictions; if you care about the feature they offer, you have to check their documentation.
I have coded my ASP.NET MVC application in a way that allows stored entities to be retrieved via a friendly name in the URL, for example:
www.mysite.com/artists/james-brown/songs
Where james-brown is a URL friendly string stored on my Artist entity.
Now imagine I add an artist that no one has heard of before, and no one ever navigated to that artist's songs page.
How would Google/Yahoo/Other Search Engines know that my site does indeed have songs for that unknown artist.
Do I create a sitemap and maintain it through code as I add / remove artists?
There are few defined known ways to make the new links visible to search engine world.
XML and HTML Sitemap:
Add it to sitemap and submit it through webmaster tools.
HTML sitemaps are another way to achieve it. If your site has footer sitemap, you can add it to them.
Internal Links
Create internal links from your high ranking pages or highly crawled pages to the new pages. Google and other search engines tend to crawl pages where the content changes frequently. So if you have a refreshed content pages, try adding it to those pages and chances are high for those pages to be discovered quickly.
External Links
Create links from external blogs, company blogs and sites like pagetube.org which can help it to be discovered.
Yeah just add them to either sitemap, internal or even external links
I have three pages with the same content, in different languages.
http://example.com/en/elephant
http://example.com/nl/elephant
http://example.com/de/elephant
When someone presses the share/like button on the dutch (nl) version I expect that the like is being shared with the english and german version.
I have set the og:url to the english version (I guess I do have to pick a version).
But the problem I now have is that the Facebook scraper looks at the english version for meta tags. So people see an English title/description when they share the dutch version.
According to the the Facebook documentation I can take a look at the X-Facebook-Locale header to serve the meta tags in the right language. But than I should serve an English page with Dutch meta tags to the Facebook crawler.
Not only is this taunting my OCD, but it also makes the code more complicated. Because the meta tags are set at different points in the request pipeline, I have multiple places where I have to switch between Cultures.
Another approach I was thinking about, is to see if there is an X-Facebook-Locale header and then do a redirect to the appropriate language, but for some strange reason that also doesn't seem to work.
What to do?
If the Facebook crawler comes to you with a X-Facebook-Locale header, then you should indeed pass it the localized OG tags. But be sure to keep one common URL.
How we (will) solve this on our site:
http://example.com/elephant is a "neutral" URL, and redirects to the /en, /nl or /de version based on the user session, or browser language preferences.
All language-specific URLs have this neutral URL in their og:url. This is the object that gets saved in the graph.
If Facebook comes to us with a X-Facebook-Locale header, we serve the same content (whether it is at /en, /nl or /de), but with the relevant tags localized.
I am working on a project in which i have to search for terms on a search engine and then cluster the results on their contextual sense. So i have to treat each result as a document. unfortunately, the data present along with each result on the result page is too little for clustering. Hence, I wanted to know from where the search engines get the abstract for each result that they show. If i could get that entire abstract then i can cluster the results by treating them as separate documents.
From where does google get the abstract ?
For eg: If you search for "1000 Mile" on google, the second result shows the following abstract:
"The women's 1000 Mile Collection is based on classic designs and reflects Wolverine's long heritage of crafting quality footwear. Complementing these classics ..."
This abstract is not present in the Meta tags of the page.
From where does Google find this data.
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From Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
Google will choose your search results snippets from the following places (not necessarily in this order):
The page's Meta Description tag
The page's Open Directory Project (ODP) Listing
Page content relevant to the search query
If you do not want Google to use the ODP listing's description then you can tell them not to do so with the following Meta tag:
<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
If you want to encourage Google to use your Meta Description tag then make sure it is unique to each page. Also make sure it contains an accurate description of the page's content.
In thew absence of an ODP description and Meta Description tag, Google will use a portion of the page's text as the description. This text will contain the closest matches to the search query. I have not seen any official limit to how long this can be but a couple of sentences seems about right.
On a related note, if you don't want a snippet to be shown with a particular page you can use the following Meta tag to prevent one from being shown:
<meta name="robots" content="nosnippet">
See this blog post for Google's tips on using the meta description tag.
According to this site, "The meta description should typically be at most 145 to 150 characters in length as these are the maximum number of characters typically displayed at Yahoo! and Google, respectively."
That site is Flash-based, and Google can index Flash content, so given that the snippet isn't in the HTML source of the page as you point out, nor is it in the cached version of the page, I'm guessing that it's somewhere in the Flash movie.
It's kind of arbitrary that the snippet mentions 'The women's 1000 Mile Collection' while the site link itself is to the parent category of 1000 mile, not just women's, so I'm guessing here that gathering snippet-friendly metadata from a Flash site is an imprecise science. That's my best guess.
In this Google Webmaster blog post, they explain how they use external text or HTML files loaded into the Flash movie, and in one of the comments Jonathan Simon says (sorry):
"We try our best to crawl Flash content but the results can sometimes be less than ideal. You are only seeing a title in the search results for your site because that's the only bit of HTML text that you have outside of your Flash content. You could add a Meta description element to offer more information in HTML. You could also add some other text that's not a part of your Flash content. Just doing this should improve the snippet you see associated with your site in the search results."