: Lost traffic from Google because of meta-tag adding I have a site aroundnails.com. It has English version on subdomain en.aroundnails.com. Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I
I have a site aroundnails.com. It has English version on subdomain en.aroundnails.com.
Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I have placed such a meta tag on the main page of main site:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/" />
By this way I have tried to say Google, that my site on en.aroundnails.com is the english version of main site, not a duplicate.
After two days I have lost a huge part of traffic from Google, more than a half.
At the beginning of september I have moved this meta-tag, but traffic remained at the same level.
Hope somebody can help me to solve this issue.
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Marian, did you add the other corresponding hreflang= tags to point to the other language pages?
The hreflang= tags are bi directional so each language page in the set must use hreflang= to identify all language versions including itself.
Proper implementation would have looked like this:
aroundnails.com/
In the source code should have been:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://aroundnails.com/" />
en.aroundnails.com/
In the source code should have been:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://aroundnails.com/" />
aroundnails.com/forma/kruglaya
In the source code should have been:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/forma/round" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://aroundnails.com/forma/kruglaya" />
en.aroundnails.com/forma/round
In the source code should have been:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/forma/round" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://aroundnails.com/forma/kruglaya" />
If you only ever added the hreflang="en" to pages this probably caused your issue.
You say that you two weeks later you noticed a drop in traffic? It is most likely that if it was that which caused Google to rank you lower it would have been sooner.
Go through these checkpoints
How long is it since you removed the tag?
Have you changed anything else?
What sort of content do you have on your set? Is it original high quality?
Does your site support the right standards (i.e. not table based layouts etc?!)
Do you link to low quality sites?
Have you checked your site is virus and malware free?
To be honest my initial guess would be that your site has been the victim of a Google Algorithm update
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