: Combining hreflang links, canonical tags and xml:lang on multilingual, multiregional and multi-subdomains websites? I have a multilingual and multiregional (using different subdomains) website and I'm

@Jennifer507

Your use of hreflang="x-default" isn't correct. As you mentioned
your default domain isn't a country selector page and is simply an
international page in English, in which case you should just be
using the language hreflang= without any location:

<link href="http://mywebsite.com/" hreflang="en" rel="alternate" />


And this obviously has to match the other equivalent language pages, take care to use the specific equivalent URL, not just the
homepage.

In which case, might some thing lke this be more relevent?

<link href="http://mywebsite.com/internal-page" hreflang="en" rel="alternate" />


Your use of title= isn't correct, as there is no reference to using this in Google guidelines.

Your also missing trailing slashes / from the end of the tags.


With these points in mind, this is how your tags should look:

<link href="http://mywebsite.com/internal-page" hreflang="en" rel="alternate" />
<link href="http://uk.mywebsite.com/internal-page" rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" />
<link href="http://fr.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" />
<link href="http://be.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-BE" />
<link href="http://be.mywebsite.com/nl-be/interne-pagina" rel="alternate" hreflang="nl-BE" />
<link href="http://nl.mywebsite.com/nl/interne-pagina" rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" />
<link href="http://it.mywebsite.com/it/pagina-interna" rel="alternate" hreflang="it" />
<link href="http://ch.mywebsite.com/de/internen-seite" rel="alternate" hreflang="de-CH" />
<link href="http://ch.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne" rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-CH" /">


2. It sounds like you are using the canonicals correctly

Although not incorrect, I think your structure of subdomains and sub folders might be slightly over kill. If the root language of the subdomain is the default, you don't really need another subfolder: e.g:
fr.mywebsite.com/fr/page-interne

Could be simplified too (no need for the fr subfolder)
fr.mywebsite.com/page-interne

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