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content(hreflang): warn against dropping x-default in multi-locale setups #11

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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion src/content/spec/i18n/hreflang.md
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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ status: recommended
order: 10
appliesTo: [all]
relatedSlugs: [lang-attribute, locale-content, rtl-support, international-url-structure, sitemap-hreflang, localised-metadata, language-switcher, avoid-auto-geo-redirects]
updated: "2026-05-29T18:54:03.000Z"
updated: "2026-05-31T00:00:00.000Z"
sources:
- title: "Google Search Central — Localized versions of your pages"
url: "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialized/international/localized-versions"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -63,3 +63,4 @@ A sitemap entry covers all alternates of a URL in one place:
- Forgetting the self-reference. Google then ignores the whole cluster.
- Mixing `hreflang` declarations in HTML, headers and sitemaps — pick one source of truth.
- Setting `hreflang` on canonicalised-away pages. Each alternate should be the canonical URL of its locale.
- Dropping `x-default` once two or more locales exist. Some setups emit it only when a single alternate is present, which is backwards — `x-default` is the fallback for exactly the multi-locale case where no `hreflang` matches the visitor.