Searchers land on the wrong language
When the annotations stop lining up, search engines guess. A German customer meets the English page, and the bounce looks like a content problem.
hreflang monitoring
Heads-up
Broken hreflang serves the wrong language to the wrong people
hreflang only works when the annotations are complete and reciprocal. One missing link and search engines fall back to guessing — and because the tags live in the <head>, nothing on the page shows it.
Heads-up severity: batched into your daily digest, because this costs clicks rather than indexation.
What it may cost you
A translation deploy or a template change can break reciprocity without touching anything visible.
Ranking signals split across mutations
Versions that no longer reference each other compete instead of consolidating, so every market gets a weaker page.
Nothing renders, so nothing is reviewed
The annotations never appear on screen. A missing one survives every visual check your team runs.
How an alert reaches you
Three steps, running every day, on something nobody looks at twice a year.
1
Every run
Baseline stored
The first crawl saves every hreflang pair on the monitored URL as it should be. That value is what every later run is compared against.
2
Next morning
Change detected
Each href and language code pair is compared against the baseline, including whether the mirrored versions still point back.
3
Daily digest
Alert in your digest
Heads-up findings are batched into one email, so this never buries an alert that needed you an hour ago.
You decide what counts as broken
The stored value is your desired state, not a guess. When a later run differs you get both versions side by side — and if the change was intentional, one click adopts it as the new baseline.
Severity matches the damage
This one waits for the daily digest by default, so it never competes with an alert that needed you immediately. Raise it to Danger per site if it matters more to you.
Set it once, then leave it
Pick the frequency and the user agent Wygard should send, switch on JS rendering if your pages need it, and the rest needs no attention.
What we check
Auto-detected on any URL where hreflang is present. Included in the Advanced plan.
| Test | What it catches | Scope | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| hreflang | A link or language code changed, an annotation was removed, or a mutation stopped pointing back at this page. | URL · Advanced | Heads-up |
Questions about hreflang monitoring
What the checks do, and what they don’t.
Do I have to configure the language set
No. Wygard picks up the annotations present on the URL and takes them as the baseline.
Which plan includes hreflang monitoring
Advanced. It is enabled automatically on URLs where hreflang is found.
Does it check the return links on the other versions
Reciprocity is part of the check: an annotation that stops pointing back at this page is reported.
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