I have a client who uses HREFALNG, which I believe misuses them. Their content is in English, but they have Canada, US, and French versions of their site via a URL slug. With the hreflang, they specify each English language version in the HTML as "en-ca" "en-fr" and "en-us." This HREFLANG is creating duplicate issues b/c each of these variations has the same content across three different URL's since it is in English, and the canonical tag is unique to each of these three pages
Should the fix be to update the 2 "fr and ca" canonical tag URLs and have the Canonical tag point to the US URL version? Google does not have to accept the declared canonical tag, but at least it is a start. I want Google to understand that the content is the same, so here is the preferred version to show in their results.
My other ideas were to remove the English + Country HREFLANG and make it for EN users. I still feel like the canonical tag will need to be updated, but this would decrease HREFLANG issues if I only did the first option.
The last resort I had was to 301 redirect all variations to 1, but this is a big site, and I don't see that ever happening as an option.
What do you think of the canonical change to fix the duplicate URL issue?
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