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Hreflang locale map

Low impactHead & meta

Hidden tags that tell search engines which language or country version of a page to show each visitor.

Why AI engines read this

For multilingual sites this stops search engines treating your translations as duplicates; AI largely synthesises across languages on its own, so it's classic hygiene, not an AI lever.

How to tell it applies to you

A multilingual site is missing hreflang, has invalid lang codes, no x-default or self-reference, or a monolingual site carries stray hreflang.

Apply it on your platform

The exact place to make this change depends on your platform. Open the guide for the step-by-step on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, and more.

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Step-by-step for your CMS, with how to confirm it worked.

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How you'll know it's done

Mark the fix applied in your dashboard once you've made the change — Findrix re-checks the live page right away, and the weekly scan confirms it. Once the fix is live the matching check flips to pass; a change you made without marking it is caught by the same scan.