Advice for used rel=alternate hreflang on corresponding ccTLDs respective countries ?

Discussion in 'Google' started by myindiahub, Jul 5, 2012.

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    We have multilingual websites with some content variations but 60% of the content on site remains the same.

    We have used rel=alternate hreflang on corresponding ccTLDs respective countries.

    for example on example.com we have used

    <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="http://www.example.co.jp/" />
    <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="http://www.example.co.uk/" />
    <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://www.example.de/" />

    Now should we also use link rel="canonical" href="example.com" on all ccTLDs? What are the advantages and disadvantage of using it?
     
    myindiahub, Jul 5, 2012 IP