hreflang & Sitemaps

For search engines to show the right language to the right people, they need to know which versions of a page exist. Omnalingo signals that two ways: hreflang tags and multilingual sitemaps.

hreflang tags

Omnalingo adds hreflang tags to your pages automatically — you never write them by hand. They tell search engines which language each version targets, so the right one is shown in results. For a page in English, French, and German, the <head> carries:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://yoursite.com/about/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="https://yoursite.com/fr/about/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="https://yoursite.com/de/about/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://yoursite.com/about/" />

The x-default entry points at your original-language version — the standard recommendation for multilingual sites.

Verifying: view a page’s source and look in the <head>, or use Google Search Console’s international-targeting report once the pages are indexed.

Multilingual sitemaps

Omnalingo’s sitemap includes your translated pages, so search engines can discover and index every language rather than just your original. Submit it the same way you’d submit any sitemap — in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools — and the translated URLs get crawled alongside your source pages.

Together, hreflang (which version) and the sitemap (here are all the URLs) give search engines a complete picture of your multilingual site.