Html language deprecated by Google?

[ClayRey]

Hi Mates,

Currently we are using on our site two tags for language (we are targeting english )

....   and

these are defined on the head section, my question is it is required by Google in order to rank well or it is deprecated.

Thank you

Claudio

[ClayRey]

Ok I'll do taht, thank you!

[HiveDigitalInc]

I would leave this -   .. but remove the meta tag..

[ClayRey]

Hi Jake,

The site is written in english, so you recommends to remove the language tags, it doesn't damage our Google tank, we are interested in rank well for United stated.

Please let me know your ideas.

Thank you

Claudio

[HiveDigitalInc]

The language tag is not required to "rank well"..

I don't believe meta name="language" is even an HTML5 declaration... So you can probably lose that one..   If you are going to set the language you can do it on the html tag, or in the header... though I do believe you can also set the language of a specific div element if there is a section of the page in an alternate language.

If you have multiple language versions of your site, then you can use hreflang tag (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en) to reference those other pages, just be sure they canonical to themselves and not to the x-default version.

Hope this helps,

Jake Bohall