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Check hreflang

Paste the address of a page in several languages. Snoei reads which language versions it names, checks the codes and visits each version to see whether it points back.

Public pages only, one at a time

Free, up to 30 requests per 10 minutes per visitor.

House rules

How to prune politely

More about Snoei and robots.txt

  • Public only, entered by you

    Snoei only reads pages that anyone can see without logging in, and only the address you enter. It skips login pages.

  • No email addresses or phone numbers

    Snoei refuses to collect them. Links to mailto: and tel: are only counted, never shown or exported.

  • Copyright stays

    Texts, tables and images belong to whoever made them. Use them to check or to quote with a source, not to copy.

  • One page at a time

    No crawling of whole sites. Snoei reads what you give, at most checks the links or language versions of that one page, follows robots.txt and keeps the pace low.

How it works

Check hreflang in three steps

  1. Paste the address

    Of one language version, for example the English home page.

  2. Snoei reads the set

    Every link rel=alternate with hreflang: valid codes, duplicates, a reference to itself and x-default.

  3. And knocks on the others

    Up to 10 other versions, to see whether they point back. Without a return link search engines ignore the pair.

Questions

Good to know

  • Why must every version point back?

    Search engines only trust a language pair when both pages refer to each other. If the French version does not point back to the English one, the pair does not count.

  • What is x-default?

    The version for people who fit none of your languages, often a language chooser or your main language. Not required, but recommended.

  • Is en-uk not a valid code?

    No. In the standard the United Kingdom is GB, so en-GB. uk is the language code for Ukrainian. Search engines ignore such a code.

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A few words are enough. We will check and fix it.

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