Hey Everyone,
I’m having an issue with the CMS localisation which is creating to URLs for the same CMS collection on Webflow.
any Idea why and how I can fix this?
Thanks
Hi there,
When managing localized CMS content across multiple locales, you need to maintain a live version in your primary (default) locale. This serves as the base content that connects all your localized versions together.
If you publish content only in secondary locales without having it in your primary locale, those localized versions will be treated as separate, unconnected content pieces. This affects both your site’s content organization and SEO performance, as Webflow uses the primary locale version to generate proper hreflang tags that help search engines understand the relationship between your localized content.
To ensure optimal content management and SEO:
- Always create and publish content in your primary locale first
- Then create localized versions in your secondary locales
- Keep the primary locale version live even if you’re using multiple localizations
Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.
Hi Carl,
I can’t see from what you’ve shared but this just looks like a duplicate item. If you have a system that is creating items through the API, Webflow would have amended the slug when you tried to create another one with the name slug?
I tried to check in your /sitemap.xml however that seems to be broken, so that’s a second thing you’ll want to fix. It looks like you’re trying to use an external service to host your sitemap but it’s not linked properly and even so I think Google still requires sitemaps to be served from your own domain.
Unless you have a special reason, I’d use Webflow’s auto-generated sitemap here, especially since you’re using localization. For clients that need it customized, I’ll do that with a reverse proxy but always on the same domain as the Webflow-hosted site.
Thank you, Michael!
The person who built our first website with Webflow mentioned that the Webflow sitemap was poor and recommended us to use Pro-Sitemap. That’s what I’m using at the moment.
In terms of duplication, I think I understood. It’s coming from the duplication of hreflang from both the Webflow and custom code I added inside the website.
I’ve now removed all the custom code to see if it will work.
Basically trying to get my Semrush Audit score to over 90 and it’s now only at 60.
Best,
Carl
Currently you don’t have any valid sitemap. It’s possible you could create a sitemap index file, to reference pro-sitemap’s individual sitemaps, but most references I’ve encountered indicate that Google will ignore sitemaps that are not hosted directly on your domain.
However you’ll know a lot more about what actually works if you dig through your Google Search Console reports.
It just looks like a duplicate CMS item, one slugged acme-ticketing and the other acme-ticketing-8f060. You can see in the HTML that they have different data-wf-item-slug attributes, so they appear to be separate items. Just delete the extra one.
You can share your designer readonly link if you want the community to help you find it. We can’t see much in the published page.