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#4645 – No canonical tag set for the following urls

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Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:01 UTC

bobptz

No canonical tag set for the following urls:
xxxx.com/contact-us.html
xxxx.com/contact-us.html?view=alfcontact
xxxx.com/about-us.html
xxxx.com/greek-teachers.html
xxxx.com/testimonials.html

This is a "regular" page, ie 1 article page:
xxxx.com/children-greek.html
This does have a canonical tag.

My observation is that all "regular" pages do have a canonical tag. The ones that do not, are either category lists, of modules (contact page).

With one exception. The HOMA page is a category list, but it does have a canonical tag.

If you want to take a look:
user: xxxx
psw: xxxx

Monday, 12 February 2018 10:04 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Why would there be any canonical on those pages if you did not set any?

Rgds

Monday, 12 February 2018 10:29 UTC

bobptz

I never set any canonical tag. I assumed that sh404sef usef the sef url to make it canonical. This happened everywhere else. It does not happen on the links I reported.

Yes, I can try to specify a canonical url and see if it works. However it does behave differently for the urls I reported.

Monday, 12 February 2018 10:57 UTC

wb_weeblr

I assumed that sh404sef usef the sef url to make it canonical.

No we do not do that. There's no way to determine the correct canonical URL except in a very limited number of situations. The only time we insert a canonical URL is:

- on the homepage
- on com_content article views - because we know what the canonical URL for that article is

Note that Joomla actually tries very often to insert a canonical by itself. And of course gets it wrong. That's why you may need to manually override it.

Rgds

Monday, 12 February 2018 11:29 UTC

bobptz

fixed. Thank you.

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