On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Joost de Valk <jo...@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

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