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Missing hreflang self-reference

hreflang.missing_self_reference
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What we look for

These pages have hreflang tags (lines in <head> listing the page's versions in other languages), but none of the tags names the page's own address.

Why it matters

Google asks each page to list itself alongside its other versions, and a missing self-entry makes the group less likely to be read as intended.

How to fix

Add a hreflang tag for the page's own language that points at its own address, in the page template or the plugin that writes the tags.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: hreflang.missing_self_reference
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "hreflang.missing_self_reference"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=hreflang.missing_self_reference
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "hreflang.missing_self_reference"
}