The pains of being an internationalised domain name

in SEO & Webmaster

Checklist. Using Danish as an example.

  1. Make sure to clearly set the domain in UTF8 in the source code:

    • <base href="https://æøå.example.com/"/>
    • <link href="https://æøå.example.com/" rel="canonical"/>
    • <link rel="alternate" href="https://æøå.example.com/" hreflang="da-DK"/>

  2. Explicitly set the language: <html lang="da-DK">

  3. Provide the readable site name for the search engines and sharing snippets:

    • <meta property="og:site_name" content="AE OE AA Example"/>
    • 
 AE OE AA Example

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