Non-Canonical Return Links
What This Means
URLs with non-canonical hreflang return links. Hreflang should only include canonical versions of URLs and this filter picks up return links that go to URLs that are not the canonical version set by the page.
What Triggers This Issue
This issue is triggered when hreflang return links point to non-canonical versions of URLs. 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 the following canonical link element:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://fr.getasky.com/technical-seo/" />How To Fix
Update hreflang annotations to include canonical versions of URLs only. They should not include links which are canonicalised to other URLs.
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