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#8402 – Canonical URLs sometimes incorrectly assigned

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Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:02 UTC

Kloostra

Hi, sorry to bother you again. However, I just ran into some issues with duplicate URL's:

The first issue that on [redacted].com, I have a few URLs where canonicals have been incorrectly assigned, see https://[redacted].com/checklist/avoid-duplicate-url-s

The canonical refers to https://[redacted].com/checklist/avoid-duplicate-url-s?lang=en while this should be the other way around. I also did a recrawl to see if this solved things, but the situation remained.

I have some more URLs with this issue:

https://[redacted].com/checklist/internal-link-structure

https://[redacted].com/checklist/avoid-deep-link-structures

https://[redacted].com/blog/joomla-3-and-canonical-url

To be sure, I issued a recrawl after the installation of the dev-version this morning, but this made no difference.

Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:08 UTC

wb_weeblr

To be sure, I issued a recrawl after the installation of the dev-version this morning, but this made no difference.

Do you know where these links are created/found?

What happens here is that 4SEO found these links first (say /checklist/avoid-duplicate-url-s?lang=en) and then the second one (/checklist/avoid-duplicate-url-s).

As they are both the same page, the first one found is considered canonical.

Ideally, you'd locate the faulty link and just remove it. As a workaround, you may want to exclude from Analysis pages with this extra ?lang query variable:

Then be sure to Reset analysis and redo it. The ?lang=xx pages will just be ignored and therefore not considered canonical. The ones without lang=xx will then become canonical.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:28 UTC

Kloostra

The links are probably JCE created internal links from the time my site was still mult-lingual. They are still all over the place, so removing them all is tricky.

But your suggestion worked great, issue solved, thanks.

Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:30 UTC

wb_weeblr

OK, you do know that 4SEO has a content replacer, right?

So maybe you can try and add a rule to replace ?lang=en with an empty string?

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:32 UTC

Kloostra

Actually just did the replacement, but with the Regularlabs version ;)

But I am aware of the replacer function in 4SEO, will definitely start using it.

Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:32 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hey, why keep ReReplacer when you can do it all with 4SEO ;)

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Sunday, 23 January 2022 05:34 UTC

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