: Redirect to canonical URL gives hreflang error in Google Webmaster Tools In my website the root page https://www.amolelingue.com/ has 301 redirect to canonical English URL https://www.amolelingue.com/en,

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In my website the root page www.amolelingue.com/ has 301 redirect to canonical English URL www.amolelingue.com/en, which has two alternate versions (/it and /fi).

I'm getting following two errors in International Targeting of Search Console of Google Webmaster Tools:

"no return tags", originating URL "/", alternate URL "https://www.amolelingue.com/en"
"no return tags", originating URL "/", alternate URL "https://www.amolelingue.com/it"

Each of the three pages (/en /it /fi) lists itself as canonical version and also has hreflang-links to all three pages. For example English version has:

<link rel='canonical' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/en'>
<link rel='alternate' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/en' hreflang='en'>
<link rel='alternate' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/it' hreflang='it'>
<link rel='alternate' href='https://www.amolelingue.com/fi' hreflang='fi'>

Nowhere do I mention "/" as canonical URL, so why am I getting errors about it not having return tags? Have I done some error here or is Google Webmaster Tools reporting this incorrectly?

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@Samaraweera270

Your configuration is incorrect. Rather than permanently redirect the root to www.amolelingue.com/en.

Either:

Do a conditional redirect, i.e. test the user's browser language and do a temporary redirect to the appropriate language page, /en, /it or /fi.
Don't redirect the root at all, and have a page on which users can select the version they want.

Then identify the root with "x-default" as follows:

<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.amolelingue.com/en" hreflang="en">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.amolelingue.com/it" hreflang="it">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.amolelingue.com/fi" hreflang="fi">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.amolelingue.com/" hreflang="x-default">

Google's documentation on hreflang is here, and the relevant part is:

[…] the reserved value "x-default" is used for indicating
language selectors/redirectors which are not specific to one language
or region, e.g. your homepage showing a clickable map of the world.

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