Yahoo Answers Has SEO Localization Issues With Google

I generally think that its fascinating to share SEO questions put together by colossal brands and online properties. So when Shirin Oskooi, who I trusts works at Yahoo as of now yet worked at Google and Microsoft asked an inquiry on for what reason Google was not grabbing the global adaptations of Yahoo Answers legitimately, I wound up intrigued.

Shirin Oskooi stated, “Google is sending all global activity to the US variant of Yahoo Answers as of September.” She needed to know why and Google’s John Mueller said on the grounds that the site isn’t utilizing hreflang markup. That and Yahoo Answers USA experiencing a total patch up, made Google befuddle everything.

Shirin Oskooi included:

Hurray determines an accepted URL to send the client to the right global form of Answers, however it’s never again being regarded. What this implies for clients who navigate to Answers is that they are seeing the Yahoo Answers Q&A content they planned to see, yet the surroundings of the page are in US English instead of the dialect/substance of their region.

In September, Yahoo Answers propelled an update to the US variant of the site. Since the update is unfathomably not quite the same as the old site (which every single worldwide rendition of the item still utilize), it’s speculated that Google may think this is on a very basic level extraordinary (and fresher) content.

Google’s John Mueller clarified:

This is something you could resolve by utilizing the hreflang markup – with the goal that we can perceive that these URLs are identical, and comprehend which one is the best one to appear for the individual dialects/areas.

So I figure between the new Yahoo Answers site, Google creeping it and not seeing the hreflang markup – it got confounded.

Gathering exchange at Google Webmaster Help.