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Hreflang Audit Checklist for Casino and Sportsbook Sites
Twelve checks, from return links and region codes to canonicals and Spain's .es rule, each tied to Google's documentation.
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Global language atlas
International iGaming SEO, without borders.
Field guides for casino and sportsbook teams that publish in more than one language: hreflang, URL structures, localization and market launch checks. Search has no borders. Gambling law does, so every guide works market by market, under that market's rules.
- Gambling Commission licenseSee guide for the United Kingdom→
United KingdomEnglish, en-GB - GGL whitelistSee guide for Germany→
GermanyGerman, de-DE - Province by provinceSee guide for Canada→
Canadaen-CA and fr-CA - DGOJ license, .es domainSee guide for Spain→
SpainSpanish, es-ES
14guides in the library
4markets, 5 locales
55primary sources cited
Four markets. Four rulebooks. One method.
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Explore by Market
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United Kingdom
One English locale, a point-of-consumption license and Northern Ireland under separate law.
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Germany
German-language pages, an official whitelist, and slots and table games licensed by different bodies.
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Spain
European Spanish, co-official regional languages and a legal duty to run a .es website.
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Canada
English and French, with gambling run province by province and Québec's French language rules.
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What We Analyze
Our methodologyCodes, return links, x-default and canonicals checked against Google's rules.
ccTLDs, subdomains or folders, and when the law decides for you.
Terminology, legal notices and cultural fit for each locale.
How the same product is searched for in each language and country.
Language selectors, geo rules and what Googlebot sees from the US.
Legal, technical and content gates before a new market goes live.
Hreflang Audit Workbench
Check an international URL set before it ships.
Paste locale and URL pairs. The workbench checks language and region codes, duplicates and URL format, then writes the link tags, HTTP header and XML sitemap entries for you. It runs in your browser and never fetches a page.
Example input on example.com
| URL | hreflang | Check |
|---|---|---|
https://example.com/ | x-default | Valid |
https://example.com/en-gb/ | en-GB | Valid |
https://example.com/de-de/ | de-DE | Valid |
https://example.com/es-es/ | es-ES | Review |
https://example.com/en-ca/ | en-CA | Valid |
https://example.com/fr-ca/ | fr-CA | Valid |
https://example.com/uk/ | en-UK | Error |
- x-default (fallback)
- English, United Kingdom (en-GB)
- German, Germany (de-DE)
- Spanish, Spain (es-ES)
- English, Canada (en-CA)
- French, Canada (fr-CA)
Tags generated from the valid lines only. The en-UK line is left out because UK is not a region code.
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="https://example.com/en-gb/" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-DE" href="https://example.com/de-de/" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es-ES" href="https://example.com/es-es/" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://example.com/en-ca/" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-CA" href="https://example.com/fr-ca/" />
- Note. Line 4: es-ES points to a host outside .es. Spain's Ley 13/2011 (art. 10.4) requires licensed operators to run a .es website and redirect Spanish connections to it, so check the structure with counsel.
- Error. Line 7: en-UK uses "UK", which is not an ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 region code. Use GB (the ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom).
Research Methodology
How we work01Market selection
A market is covered only where a licensing route exists and its rules can be sourced.
02Language mapping
Locales, scripts and co-official languages mapped to valid codes.
03Technical validation
Hreflang, canonicals, sitemaps and redirects checked against Google's documentation.
04SERP review
Manual, dated observation of local results, labeled as observation.
05Editorial review
Every claim tied to a dated primary source before it is published.
International Market Snapshots
Explore all marketsUnited Kingdom
English (en-GB)Remote operators serving Great Britain need a Gambling Commission license wherever their servers sit.
License requiredGermany
German (de-DE)The GGL publishes an official whitelist of permitted operators and websites under § 9(8) GlüStV 2021.
Whitelist marketSpain
Spanish (es-ES)Licensed operators must run a .es website and redirect connections from Spain to it.
.es domain ruleCanada
English and French (en-CA, fr-CA)Each province decides. Ontario opened a regulated private market on April 4, 2022.
Provincial rules
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