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Getting Started
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- Server Last Update Element
- Add URL's to Ignore and Exclude
- Enable or Disable Canonical Checking
- Enable or Disable Forced Lower Case
- Enable or Disable Robots Checking
- Root Domain - Set URL for HREFLang XML Server Location
- Set URL's to Include in XML
- Set/Change Exported XML File Size
- Setting X-Default Language
- Enable or Disable URL Checking
- Error Checking Options
- Enable Mapping Tag Names
- Disable or Enable HTTPS Checking
- Disable or Enable Strip index.html in URLs
- Select User Agent
- Enable Custom Index XML File Name
- Auto Uploading XML Files
- Set URL for HREFLang XML Server Location
- Setting Global File Name Prefix – XML Site Maps
- Set Export Type
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Managing Projects
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- Import Individual Excel or CSV files for each country/language
- Import Individual Sitemaps for each country/language
- Importing Blended (Multiple Country Version) XML Site Map(s)
- Importing Multiple XML Index Site Maps
- Importing Multiple XML Site Map(s)
- Importing XML Index Site Map(s)
- Importing Zipped XML Index Site Map(s)
- Append New URL's to Existing Country
- How to Delete or Exclude URLs
- How to Add URLs to a Country
- 200 Indexable URLs
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- AllowList HREFLang Builder
- Auto Import XML Sitemaps from Dropbox
- Screaming Frog for URL Auto Updates
- HREFLang Builder Bot
- Use Auto Update to Add New URL's
- Setting up Lumar (FormerlyDeep Crawl) API
- Lumar (DeepCrawl) API Considerations
- Setting up OnCrawl API
- Auto Uploading XML Files
- Setting up AWS S3 Bucket for XML Site Maps
- How to Add New URLs to Hreflang Builder
- Setting up Content King API
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- Mapping Different Page Names
- My Local Country Site is in English
- Using Missing Page Identification Feature
- How do I upload a custom URL mapping table?
- How To Map Alternate URLs
- Mapping URL's with Product ID's
- How do I download my custom URL mapping table?
- Building a Manual Mapping Matrix
- Image Sitemap Extraction for Product Mapping
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- Adding a new site to an existing project
- Editing Existing Projects
- Editing the Country or Language of a Site
- Import Individual Sitemaps for each country/language
- Reviewing the Update Status Report
- Setting a Global Language
- Setting or Changing the Country or Language
- What happens once my HREFlang XML is created?
- Setup Automatic Updates
- HREFLang for Regional Sites
- AllowList HREFLang Builder
- How to Remove a Country or Language Clone
- How to Clone a Country or Language
- How to Clone a Country or Language for X-default
- Removing a Country or Language
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Best Practices
- Duplicate URL's used in HREFLang Elements
- How do I Add a New Country or Language Version to an existing project
- I have localized URL's can I use HREFLang Builder?
- What are the red rows in my project?
- Why are some URLs missing from my XML?
- How do I Add or Replace URL's for a country?
- Can I use a global language like French?
- What are the red rows in my project?
- Finding Included URLs
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Troubleshooting & Errors
- Consistent URL Counts
- Downloading Non-200 Indexable Status Error Reports
- Using Missing Page Identification Feature
- Why is my country file missing?
- My Project is all Red
- Find URL Source Files
- Why do I have an Unknown_Unknown_csv File
- URL is Redirecting to Error
- Country and Language Mismatch
- Multiple Tags for this Language-Region Code
- Status 0 Code
- Finding Included URLs
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HREFLang Basics
- Are HREFLang Statements Case Sensitive?
- Can HREFlang Builder be used cross domain?
- Does HREFLang URL Order Matter?
- Does the URL order matter for HREFLang elements?
- HREFLang for Regional Sites
- When to use HREFLang Elements?
- What is the HREFLang Element?
- Using Canonicals and HREFLang Tags Together
- How to Rebuild or Update HREFLang XML Site Maps
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HREFLang Mistakes
- Error - Canonical is Self-referencing HREFLang Entry
- Error - Combining HREFLang and Canonical Tags
- Error - Combining Multiple Country or language codes
- Error - HREFLang only on Dot Com Domains
- Error - HREFLang Only on Home Page
- HREFLang Return Tags are Missing
- Mistake - Canonical Mismatch Errors
- Mistake - Incorrect Country or Language Codes
- Mistake - Too Many HREFLang Elements in a Page
- Mistake - Uploading URL's with Errors
- Mistake - Using Protocol-Relative URL's in HREFLang Tags
- Return Tags Not Matching Self-Referencing Values
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HREFLang Builder General
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Reports
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Features
Enable Mapping Tag Names
This is one of our advanced mapping features that lets you give us to match all pages that have a unique product ID even if the URL’s are localized or have a different structure across markets. This ID needs to be contained in the page as a Meta Tag or in a in page JavaScript. use to identify same pages for markets with localized URL’s. Note: To use this feature you must Enable URL Checking
For example, one client has a tag in the page with the name “CanonicalPageName” and this has a unique ID for this specific item across all countries. Since this number is the same, we can import it and assign it to each of the URL’s. Then use that ID to match all pages that have the same “CanonicalPageName” ID
Examples of Mapping Tag Names:
With this “skuID” setting we will look for a string in the code, as shown below, that has that unique ID number. We will then match all pages in the database that have the ID PV-69Y553Y53564 as being the same page.
Similar to the above, we will look for pages that contain a unique BaseProductID
Note: We can combine the Tag Named feature with our Mapping Tables features to allow you to map regional pages with unique numbers to different numbers from another region. This is more complex and requires us to set some mapping in the database.