Magento – How to Add Hreflang Tags to Pages

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Hi using info from this site and around the web I have started to add hreflang tags to my magento store. They work and display as they should on the default (American)site, however on the alternate (Canadian)site it does not work, here is the code & how it displays.

<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com<?php 
$urlString = Mage::helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();
$url = Mage::getSingleton('core/url')->parseUrl($urlString);
$path = $url->getPath();echo $path 
?>" hreflang="en-us" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/ca<?php $urlString =
Mage::helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();                                                             
$url = Mage::getSingleton('core/url')->parseUrl($urlString);
$path = $url->getPath();echo $path ?>" hreflang="en-ca" />

which on the main site properly displays as (on a product page for example)

<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/sample-product.html" 
hreflang="en-us" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/ca/sample-product.html" hreflang="en-ca" />

so far so good, however when you are on the Canadian ca site, it now displays as

<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/ca/sample-product.html" hreflang="en-us" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/ca/ca/sample-product.html" hreflang="en-ca" />

as you can see there is an extra (/ca/) on each url. I'm not quite sure how to tackle this problem, I guess what I need is the code to output everything after the base url as opposed to the domain of each site. Any help that you could provide will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

Best Answer

In my case, I wanted to do different hreflangs for each website. So to do just for the current one:

$website = Mage::app()->getWebsite()->getStores();
foreach ( $website as $store) {
    $lang = $store->getConfig('general/locale/code');
    echo '<link rel="alternate" href="' . $store->getCurrentUrl() . '" hreflang="' . $lang . '"/>' . "\n";
}

There is one more thing to point out, $lang = $store->getConfig('general/locale/code'); generates language tags like so: "en_GB". As Google states, that is incorrect, it should have been: "en-gb" (dash not underscore, small caps) or "en", depended on what you wan to achieve - link.

I use the code directly in templates, as it each of my website has its own template - it should go to app/design/frontend/yourPackage/yourTemplate/template/page/html/head.phtml

An example of replacing language tags as asked in comments - in most cases we only use "non targeted" language tags (two leter ISO codes):

$lang = $store->getConfig('general/locale/code');
    if (strtolower($lang) == 'en_us'){
        $lang = 'en'; //OR en-gb or any tag you need
    }
    echo '<link rel="alternate" href="' . $store->getCurrentUrl() . '" hreflang="' . $lang . '"/>' . "\n";

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I think the simplest solution here will be to create 301 redirects for your pages in different languages in the url rewrites management admin section.
Something like this:

For DE store view redirect from bags.html to taschen.html.
For EN store view redirect from taschen.html to bags.html.

Do the same for all the other combinations.
this way, when you switch from domain.com/en/bags.html to DE you it will points to a page that does not exist domain.com/de/bags.html but that will do a 301 redirect to domain.com/de/taschen.html.
I know that there are a lot of redirects to create, but I can recommend you this extension. All you need to do is to provide the url keys for each store view and it will create automatically the redirects.

But if you don't like this approach, you may need to rewrite the Mage_Core_Model_Store::getCurrentUrl method to look in the url_rewrites table and get the url for each language. But this may cause performance issues and it is not a bullet proof solution, because it will not work for cms pages or other custom page.

I don't have a full working solution for this, but I can give you some pointers.
Look in the core_url_rewrites table for a target path matching the $requestString var in the method mentioned above for the store that should generate the url and append to the target path value the query string.

How to Remove ?___store= from Hreflang URL

Why not keep it simple.

Instead of making new module etc just remove last part of your string containing ?___store=en_ca

<?php foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website) {
    foreach ($website->getGroups() as $group) {
        $stores = $group->getStores();
        foreach ($stores as $store) {

            // check if $url contain ?, if yes then strip last part of url
            $url = $store->getCurrentUrl(false); 
            if((strpos($url, '?') !== false)){ 
                $url = substr($url, 0, strrpos($url, "?"));
            }

            $storeCode = $store->getCode(); // addad url as variable
            echo '<link rel="alternate" hreflang="' . $storeCode . '" href="' . $url . '"/>' . "\n";
        }
    } } ?>

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