Erwin007 Posted Monday at 12:25 PM Share Posted Monday at 12:25 PM (edited) Hi, I have a website(HTML) where I sell 1 tour in 3 languages. In the root I have the index.html and tour.html both in English (English is default). Then there are 2 folders, one folder is ES (Spanish) and one folder DE (German), both have index.html and tour.html with the same contents but in their specific language. I am trying for some time now to solve these 2 error-messages in Google Search Console: - Duplicate without user-selected canonical - Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user My question is where and in which page(s) (index or tour) to put "<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/???.html" />" Thanks for your help. Edited Monday at 12:31 PM by Erwin007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moorcam Posted Monday at 01:27 PM Share Posted Monday at 01:27 PM 1 hour ago, Erwin007 said: Hi, I have a website(HTML) where I sell 1 tour in 3 languages. In the root I have the index.html and tour.html both in English (English is default). Then there are 2 folders, one folder is ES (Spanish) and one folder DE (German), both have index.html and tour.html with the same contents but in their specific language. I am trying for some time now to solve these 2 error-messages in Google Search Console: - Duplicate without user-selected canonical - Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user My question is where and in which page(s) (index or tour) to put "<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/???.html" />" Thanks for your help. I would put it in them all. Just replace the ??? with the file name. But that's me. Maybe contact Google Search Console support and verify? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted Monday at 07:21 PM Share Posted Monday at 07:21 PM Set the canonical URL as whatever page it is, so English and Spanish and German. Also make sure you're specifying the language. Then wait and see if GSC still thinks they're duplicates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted yesterday at 04:12 PM Share Posted yesterday at 04:12 PM It's unclear to me how navigation to the spanish/german versions work, but if there are links you can add rel="canonical" to all the links and that should fix things. With that said, this issue is covered in their localization documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions If you have a sitemap file, then follow the instructions for adding entries for each language. I'm guessing you don't have a sitemap, so an alternative is to add this type of block to the header of each page. This is very doable for you because you only have 6 pages. (2 pages x 3 languages). This is for example only, copied right out of the google documentation and modified slightly to be closer to what you described, but otherwise what from what I linked for you above: <head> <title>Widgets, Inc</title> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/index.html" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="https://example.com/de/index.html" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.com/es/index.html" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://www.example.com/" /> </head> So keep in mind that something similar to this section would go into the header of all the 3 index.html files. You will have a different section for the 3 tour.html files, that points to your 3 variations. Language Codes come from ISO-639-1. Country Code come from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 Since it sounds like this might be a country specific business, you might want your hreflang codes to be: en-GB - English - Great Britain de-DE German - Germany es-ES Spanish - Spain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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