Noindex Returns Links
What This Means
URLs with return links which have a ‘noindex’ meta tag. All pages within a set should be indexable, and hence any return URLs with ‘noindex’ may result in the hreflang relationship being ignored.
What Triggers This Issue
This issue is triggered when hreflang return links point to pages with a ‘noindex’ meta tag. For example:
https://www.getasky.com/technical-seo/ Has the hreflang annotations:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="https://www.getasky.com/technical-seo/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-fr" href="https://www.getasky.com/fr/technical-seo/" /> But https://www.getasky.com/fr/technical-seo/ has a meta ‘noindex’ tag.How To Fix
Update hreflang annotations to include indexable URLs only. They should not include links which are ‘noindex’.
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