Hi,

I have a website with 8 languages and Google says than my website doesn't has well updated hfrlang sitemap. I created this sitemap with JSitemap pro, but I can´t create with the component a hreflang sitemap for other 7 language, only for spanish. I think that that is the problem:

/sitemap_hreflang_es.xml
/sitemap_images_en.xml
/sitemap_images_es.xml
/sitemap_images_eu.xml
/sitemap_images_fr.xml
/sitemap_images_ja.xml
/sitemap_images_ko.xml
/sitemap_images_ru.xml
/sitemap_images_zh.xml
/sitemap_xml_en.xml
/sitemap_xml_es.xml
/sitemap_xml_eu.xml
/sitemap_xml_fr.xml
/sitemap_xml_ja.xml
/sitemap_xml_ko.xml
/sitemap_xml_ru.xml
/sitemap_xml_zh.xml

Hi, the hreflang sitemap is unique, you submit only 1 sitemap for the base language and it must include all other languages relation. So if you submit the sitemap_hreflang_es.xml that's all if it contains relations to other languages.

In the Webmasters Tools the problem could be different and not strictly related to the sitemap, indeed in the 'Segmentation internacional' you could have errors if on your website the hreflang tag is not present in the html of pages.

Best regards
John

Hi,

I don´t understand well this: "In the Webmasters Tools the problem could be different and not strictly related to the sitemap, indeed in the 'Segmentation internacional' you could have errors if on your website the hreflang tag is not present in the html of pages."

Can you visit the website http://www.ciudadsansebastian.com and look if the problem is hreflang tag is not present in the html of pages?

Thanks

Hi,

yes on your website the hreflang tag is not present in the HTML code of pages. however if you already submitted a hreflang sitemap Google should be able to relate contents even without the HTML tag, so i would not worry too much about this error in the Search Console.
More info here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en