I'm currently working on a website which provides content to users based on their region. As a result the website has subdirectories for the appropriate regions. For example, a pricing page would look something like this:http://mydomain.com/ie/pricinghttp://mydomain.com/gb/pricinghttp://mydomain.com/fr/pricingIn order to target the appropriate search engines and signify to Google that there are different versions of the page, I've implemented hreflang tags. A good example of a site that uses these would be view-source:https://www.tripadvisor.ie/. If you view the source you will see a long list of hreflang tags to denote multiple regional versions of the page.So, for my site, I decided to write a PHP script that would output the relevant hreflang tags on the correct page:<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?><?php if(strpos($url, pricing) == true): ?><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/ hreflang=en-ie /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/ hreflang=en-gb /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/ hreflang=en-fr /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/ hreflang=en /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/ hreflang=x-default /><?php endif; ?>However, the problem I'm facing is that if the URL contains pricing ANYWHERE it will output the above which is not correct if the URL was something like: http://www.mydomain.com/pricing-types.To counteract this I added another if statement which checks to ensure that the word types is not present in the URL:<?php $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?><?php if(strpos($url,pricing) == true && strpos($url, types) == false): ?><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/ie/pricing/ hreflang=en-ie /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/gb/pricing/ hreflang=en-gb /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/fr/pricing/ hreflang=en-fr /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/ hreflang=en /><link rel=alternate href=http://www.mydomain.com/pricing/ hreflang=x-default /><?php endif; ?>Would anyone have any recommendations of how I could improve my script to read the URLs and match them to the appropriate hreflang tags but being more explicit in the URLs I read?
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