875293 - [SEO] Implement rel="alternate" hreflang="x"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 481550

(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #481550 +++

(Bug 481550 comment 26)
> Along with rel="canonical", it's nice to have rel="alternate" hreflang="x"
> to combine indexing signals (aka PageRank) among locales.
> 
> http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-
> multilingual-content.html
> http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077
> 
> <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/">
> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="af"
> href="http://www.mozilla.org/af/firefox/">
> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar"
> href="http://www.mozilla.org/af/firefox/">
>           :
> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en"
> href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/">
>           :

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Wouldn't this mean if we had say 60 languages on www.mozilla.org that we would need 60 rel="alternative" tags on each page of the website? If we want to do this, this will have to be done on the bedrock side where it can be done more programatically, with the python and php mix that we have now, it would be very difficult to pull this off.

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I hope Bug 773371 will be of help to the implementation on the Bedrock site!

Comment 3

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Once https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/989 is merged, (canonical and) alternate URLs can be implemented very easily. I have already committed the change:

https://github.com/kyoshino/bedrock/commit/f25df0c11a178b855cfb80f89a4e89549b524602

Comment 4

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Merging with the canonical URL bug.