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Do I need to use rel=canonical if the site has multiple languages?
Hello.
I asked this question, there is a site with three languages.
mysite.com/ - Ru version
mysite.com/en/ - English version
mysite.com/ua/
- Ukrainian version
Are different language versions considered duplicates?
Now every page has this code:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="mysite.com" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="uk-UA" href="mysite.com/ua" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="mysite.com/en" />
<link rel="canonical" href="mysite.com" />
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Languages have nothing to do with it. canonical should only be used if the page is being called from multiple locations. For example:
- a page can be opened from two sections
- a page can be opened from a section and a pagination page
Note: If the page can be called from one section and the pagination pages are closed by robots.txt, then canonical is not needed.
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