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Google Ignores The HTML lang Attribute

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Google’s John Mueller confirmed that they completely ignore the HTML lang attribute for determining the language and region of the page. John said this at the 55:54 mark into the video hangout from last week.

Instead, John said you should use hreflang markup.

The question was:

John Mueller replied:

They go on a bit more about the topic and you can watch it below:

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