Knowledge Base

Broken or Incorrect Hyperlinks

Published on May 8, 2023

Broken or incorrect hyperlinks not only affect users, they interfere with Googlebot’s ability to crawl your site.

Hyperlinks Are Using Relative Reference

Published on May 8, 2023

While relative URLs come with quicker coding, a staging environment, and faster load times, they can lead to issues with crawling.

Hyperlink Has Both href and onclick Attribute

Published on May 8, 2023

The “onclick” attribute does what it sounds like: it’s activated when a user clicks it. However, Googlebot will follow the href reference, while users experience the onclick.

Underscore Instead of Dash in Hreflang

Published on May 4, 2023

If your hreflang uses an underscore instead of dash, you can update the attribute to solve this issue.

No Self-Referencing Hreflang Tag

Published on May 4, 2023

If a page has been translated into a different language, it will need an hreflang attribute that points to itself. For pages missing this self-reference, it can be added. Here’s how.

Invalid Region in the Hreflang Attribute

Published on May 4, 2023

Using the wrong regions in the hreflang attribute results in not getting picked up by Google. It’s important to have invalid/incorrect regions updated to avoid this.

Invalid Order of Hreflang Values

Published on May 4, 2023

The language code must precede the country code to have a valid hreflang attribute. If your order is invalid, you can update the hreflang to swap the order and resolve this issue.