URL with UTM parameters give conflicts when auditing

  • Resolved marcusdeman

    (@marcusdeman)


    10 months, 1 week ago

    Hi,

    We have several links with UTM parameters on our site pointing to other parts of the same website.

    This causes SEMRush to throw a conflict because the hreflang and canonicals are not matching the URL when these pages are crawled.

    Can this be resolved and if so how?

    • This topic was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by marcusdeman.
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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @marcusdeman,

    Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin. Can you share some more information?

    • A screenshot of the notification you got from Semrush about the conflict.
    • A screenshot of what you have in WordPress > Yoast SEO > Settings > Advanced > Advanced: URL cleanup
    Thread Starter marcusdeman

    (@marcusdeman)

    Hi Maybellyne,

    Here is my response to your questions.

    I did another SEMRush audit and now the issue of hreflangs and cannonicals not matching is gone. Pretty peculiar.

    However, SEMRush still states that there is no self-referencing hreflang found in these pages with UTM parameters. How/where is this self-referencing hreflang tags set?

    Not sure if it is still relevant to the new case but we haven’t configured / are using the Advanced: URL cleanup options in Yoast.

    Thread Starter marcusdeman

    (@marcusdeman)

    The URL of the page is:
    https://website.com/de/plattform/ueberblick/

    But the url with UTM parameters in my chrome browser could be:

    https://website.com/de/plattform/ueberblick/?utm_campaign=wiki&utm_source=website

    And these are the html codes I see on the page in regards to hreflang:

    <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en"  />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de"  />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default"  />

    I am also using the Chrome hreflang tag checker widget and when I test it out on the page it will also state that the hreflang url’s found in the source does not match up with the URL address that I am visiting.

    • This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by marcusdeman.
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    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    The Yoast SEO plugin isn’t responsible for adding hreflang tag. Please speak with your multilingual plugin developer about this.

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