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Hreflang Return-Link Validator
Verify that your language and region alternates point back to each other.
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Not available yet. Hreflang Return-Link Validator is in development and has not been released. There is nothing to download, sign up for or buy today. Questions? Email support@povluma.com.
About this web tool
A planned checker for hreflang annotations that confirms every alternate page links back, so multilingual and multi-region sites send consistent signals.
What it will solve
Hreflang only works when pages reference each other reciprocally. Missing return links are easy to introduce and tedious to find by hand across many URLs.
Planned capabilities
These describe what we intend to build. They may change, and none of them is available yet.
- Planned: Read hreflang annotations from page HTML, HTTP headers and XML sitemaps
- Planned: Follow each alternate URL and confirm it links back to the original page
- Planned: Flag missing return links, missing self-references and invalid language or region codes
- Planned: Check for x-default usage and conflicting annotations
- Planned: Present results as a clear report that can be shared with a team
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