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#5740 – SH404+wbamp (community ed) = no rel="canonical"!

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Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:01 UTC
Robert
 Hi there,
I'dlike to know how to generate automatically rel="canonical" tag in article (i use third party content editor, rsdirectory).

Can you tell me, why, when i combine both sh404 and wbamp, it don't generate the rel="canonical" for my desktop contents. This problem affect the way that Google are indexing my content, most of them are assimilate to mobile content rather then desktop content.
Regards
 
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:06 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

1 -
I'dlike to know how to generate automatically rel="canonical" tag in article (i use third party content editor, rsdirectory).
If you want to add a canonical to a page reached by a certain URL, you can do that from the SEF URL manager, see documentation on this page for more details.

Can I ask why you would want to add a canonical to an article? you have duplicate content issues?

2 - As for the canonical question, I cannot comment on that without full and real URL to pages having this issue. Not having the canonical in that case is something unheard of, it would be a significant bug, please provide links.

Best regards
 
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:45 UTC
Robert
Hi thank for your quick response.
Here the URL of My website : https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting

What i mean is that i feel strange that Google are indexing more frequently the contents from my amp pages rather than those for desktop : you can see the difference between these two files (sitemap-indexed and amp-indexed). For the first, you can see that the last time that Google was crawled this menu is the 1 april! where for the amp content it crawl more frequently (last time was the7 april).

But when a make a test on a specific URL (see details.png), Google says that this URL is on Google while it's not listed on the coverage index!!!

this is why i ask about how to force Google to add to this index rather than in the amp index
Regards
 
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:47 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

1 - Good that you noticed this by looking at the search console but it's always best to first look at your site and your pages.

I'm not surprised several pages in your sitemap are not indexed: the sitemap file contains multiple duplicates and thin content pages:

https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting?limit=20&start=40, https://www.xxxx.com/en, etc

You should review it and possibly remove it as your site is simple. Just make sure all the pages can be crawled.

2 -
What i mean is that i feel strange that Google are indexing more frequently the contents from my amp pages rather than those for desktop : you can see the difference between these two files (sitemap-indexed and amp-indexed).
It does not crawl more often your AMP pages than your desktop pages. That's not how it works. Google indexes your standard pages. If you have an AMP version as well, then it also notice that this AMP version exist. But it does not "index" it. It indexes the "main" page, the standard one and just displays the AMP version in search results on mobile.

>> The number you see on that page (Envoyée et indexée) is NOT the number of pages indexed on your site. It's only the result of your sitemap processing. Google crawls and decide on which pages to index by themselves. The sitemap is just an indication you give them, a hint but they mail well not take it into account many times, especially on smaller, simpler sites.

For the first, you can see that the last time that Google was crawled this menu is the 1 april! where for the amp content it crawl more frequently (last time was the7 april)
Again, you are just talking about your sitemap here. This does not reflect what Google is crawling and indexing on your site.

3 -
Important: it's been already some times now that Google (for most sites) is using their mobile robot to index sites. It's celled "mobile-first indexing". Basically your desktop pages are not really taken into account, at least not for indexing.

You should also not mistake "mobile version" and "amp version". AMP is NOT your mobile version. You have a mobile version and then you also have an AMP version. The AMP version is not used for indexing or ranking. It's only used for display in search results.
Your mobile version is used for indexing and ranking.

4 - In conclusion: you do not have any problem. All is working fine (yes, I checked that the AMP pages have a proper canonical to the standard version). Do not add any redirect or any canonical, you are going to break something.

Best regards
 
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:36 UTC
Robert
Ok thank you for your help, but i have a last question, as you said above that this URL contain many duplicates entries https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting?limit=20&start=40. Can you tell me if it's te samo for this URL too? https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting

Regards
 
Thursday, 11 April 2019 08:58 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

Not sure what the question is. Are you asking to check what is inside your sitemap?

Best regards
 
Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:32 UTC
Robert
No, the question is about the definition of the duplicate content :
do i consider all pages listing any entries as a page provided duplicate content ?

Example :
https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting which is equal to this in fact :
https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting?limit=20&start=20

Regards
 
Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:34 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

[quote]https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting which is equal to this in fact :
https://www.xxxx.com/emplois/casting?limit=20&start=20[quote] They are not the same page. They are the page 1 and then page 2, etc

Those are totally not "duplicate content"

Best regards
 
Friday, 12 April 2019 04:13 UTC
Robert
thank you
 
Friday, 12 April 2019 07:41 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

You're welcome! Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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Best regards
 
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