Keeper translates nearly every blog post into ten languages: the blog sitemaps hold about 7,800 translations (779 in French, 790 in German, 863 in Japanese) next to 1,072 English posts. But the posts carry no hreflang tags, only a self-canonical, so search engines are not told that /blog/fr/... is the French version of /blog/... . French searchers can land on the English post, and the translations compete with each other instead of ranking as one set. The main site does have hreflang for 13 locales; the blog was left out. Keeper has just posted a Web Developer, Technical SEO role to fix "missing or incorrect translations" and hreflang, and a French-market SEO specialist.
First action
Confirm in Search Console which blog URLs French users land on today.
How to measure it
Non-English blog organic sessions
- Now
- –
- Target
- +30%
- By
- 90 days
Steps
Baseline
Landing pages and clicks per language in Search Console.
Senior SEO/GEO Specialist 2 days
Map pairs
Match each translation to its English post by slug and date.
Web Developer, Technical SEO 2 days
Add tags
hreflang and x-default in the post template.
Web Developer, Technical SEO 1 week
Update sitemaps
xhtml:link alternates in the blog sitemaps.
Web Developer, Technical SEO 2 days
Validate
Crawl a sample per language for return-tag errors.
Web Developer, Technical SEO 2 days
Track French first
Rankings and clicks for /blog/fr/.
SEO & AI Search Specialist, EMEA weekly
Report
Traffic by language at 30, 60 and 90 days.
Senior SEO/GEO Specialist monthly
Why it works
Generate hreflang alternates for every blog post from the shared slug (the URLs already match: /blog/2025/07/22/<slug>/ and /blog/fr/2025/07/22/<slug>/), add an x-default to English, and include the alternates in the blog sitemaps as xhtml:link entries. Make the blog's language codes match the main site's (fr vs fr_FR) in the tags, then watch Search Console's international targeting report and French traffic for 60 days.
Translations that are correctly paired rank in the right country and pass authority between language versions, so the work already paid for starts to earn traffic, and the new French and EMEA SEO hires begin with a clean base.
Ready to use
ChecklistBlog hreflang rollout
[ ] Pair list: English slug to each translation [ ] hreflang for en, fr, de, es, it, nl, pl, pt-br, ru, ja, zh-hans [ ] x-default pointing to English [ ] Tags match the main site's locale codes [ ] xhtml:link alternates in blog sitemaps [ ] Crawl check for missing return tags [ ] Search Console baseline and 60-day review
Risks and how to handle them
Missing pairs create return errors
Tag only posts with a matching translation.
Machine-translated posts rank poorly
Have the French specialist review the top 50 French posts.
Evidence
- Your websiteBlog sitemaps list 8,906 post URLs: 1,072 English and about 7,800 translations under /blog/<lang>/ (ja 863, de 790, fr 779, it 773, ru, pl and nl 772, zh-hans 771, pt-br 771, es 769), and only the blog root in Arabic. Sampled posts (English, French, and the October 2026 posts) carry a self-canonical but no hreflang tags, so an English post and its ten translations are not marked as alternates. The main site's pages do carry hreflang for 13 locales, with no x-default.Source
- HiringWeb Developer, Technical SEO, posted October 9, 2026: will "continuously audit Keeper's global web properties to identify issues such as missing translations, incorrect canonical tags, broken links, indexing problems", support "hreflang implementation, localization coverage and identification of missing or incorrect translations", work on "XML sitemaps, robots.txt", and "Analyze how Keeper content appears in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI search experiences".Source
- HiringSEO & AI Search Specialist, EMEA (Cork, posted October 9, 2026): "primary ownership of the French market", "creating truly local content", optimizing "for visibility in AI-powered answers", managing "the EMEA SEO/GEO content calendar for blogs", and conversion work on "landing pages, user journeys, calls to action and lead generation".Source
- HiringSenior SEO/GEO Specialist, posted October 8, 2026: "crawlability, indexation, redirects, canonicalization, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, JavaScript rendering, duplicate content and structured data"; "Monitor and improve Core Web Vitals"; content briefs for "blogs, product pages, landing pages, glossary pages"; "international and multilingual SEO initiatives, including hreflang"; experience "monitoring brand visibility in LLM-generated results".Source