# hreflang

> Annotations that tell search engines which language and region each version of a page targets — so the Hungarian searcher gets the Hungarian page.

A multilingual site is three sites that answer the same question; hreflang is how you tell search engines they are siblings, not duplicates. Each page lists every alternate with its language code — en, hu, de — plus x-default for everyone else.

The rules are strict: every page must link every version including itself, and the links must be symmetric — if the English page claims the Hungarian is its twin, the Hungarian must claim the same back. Get it wrong and Google guesses, which usually means ranking the wrong-language page in the wrong country.

## Related terms

- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/canonical-url.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/internationalization.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/seo.md

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Source: https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/hreflang
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