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Pages with Non-Reciprocated Hreflang Links

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

The hreflang links on the page which are not reciprocated will be ignored by search engines.

How do you fix it​

For each hreflang link, validate that the hreflang target page is a languge or region alternate, and add a reciprocal hreflang link back to the original URL.

What is the positive impact​

Regional page variations which are very similar and do not have reciprocal hreflangs may be deduplicated and removed from search engine indexes.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
  getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
    reportsByCode(
      input: {
        reportTypeCodes: Basic
        reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
      }
    ) {
      rows {
        nodes {
          ... on CrawlUrls {
            pageTitle
            url
            foundAtSitemap
            deeprank
            nonReciprocateHreflangOutCount
            level
            hreflangCombination
            hreflangUrlCount
            hreflangOnPage
            hreflangOnHeader
            hreflangOnSitemap
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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