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hreflang — SEO for multilingual sites

14.02.2026
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If your site is in 4 languages, Google needs to know which version to show whom.

Hreflang syntax

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="uz" href="https://site.uz/uz/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="https://site.uz/ru/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://site.uz/en/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://site.uz/">

Language codes

ISO 639-1: uz, ru, en, kk, tg. With region: en-GB, en-US.

In sitemap

Even better — declare in sitemap.xml via xhtml:link.

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