How I Fixed the Canonical and Hreflang Mess on My Multilingual Website

I run Animate Old Photos , an AI-powered tool that brings old photographs to life. The site supports multiple languages — English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and more. Sounds great in theory. In practice, I had a silent SEO problem that took me a while to notice: my canonical and hreflang tags were misconfigured across pages that didn't have full language coverage. If your website has multilingual support but not every page is translated into every language, this article is for you. I'll walk