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Using hreflang for regional targeting on a single-language (dot)com site?
Posted by on September 8, 2025 at 10:58 amHi everyone,
I have a question about using hreflang for a single-language website. My situation is this:
- I'm building a site that only targets Canada.
- The domain is a com (I can't buy a ca domain).
- The site is English-only. There will be no other language versions.
Since i cannot use ccTLD targeting with a .ca domain, my question is if I can use hreflang regional targeting (en-CA)? But I'm not sure if this is recommended for single-language sites?
I asked in my network and getting mixed signals. Some people say it helps with regional targeting. Others say hreflang is only for when you have multiple versions of a page, so it's useless here or even could harm my site. Would love to get some opinions from the experts in here. Thanks in advance!
(Btw, my business niche makes getting a GBP difficult, so I'm trying to use every other signal I can.)
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1 Reply
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Use <html lang=”en-CA”> in the <html> element declaration.
No need to use hreflang if you’re not going to have multi-language.
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