Hreflang

Dan Sharp

Posted 13 December, 2016 by Dan Sharp in

Hreflang

Configuration > Spider > Crawl > Hreflang

By default the SEO Spider will extract hreflang attributes and display hreflang language and region codes and the URL in the hreflang tab.

However, the URLs found in the hreflang attributes will not be crawled and used for discovery, unless ‘Crawl hreflang’ is ticked. With this setting enabled hreflang URLs’s will be extracted from an XML sitemap uploaded in list mode.

Unticking the ‘store’ configuration will mean hreflang attributes will not be stored and will not appear within the SEO Spider.

Unticking the ‘crawl’ configuration will mean URLs discovered in hreflang will not be crawled.

Please read our guide on How To Audit Hreflang.

Dan Sharp

Dan Sharp is founder & Director of Screaming Frog. He has developed search strategies for a variety of clients from international brands to small and medium-sized businesses and designed and managed the build of the innovative SEO Spider software.