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#6985 – canonical utm url

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Wednesday, 04 March 2020 14:56 UTC
soldonald-gmail-com
Hi,

Does SEF show utm url's?
If not, can I use SEF to setup rel=canonical on UTM url's to the "original page"?  

thnx!
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 15:07 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

sh404SEF will automatically add a canonical for Joomla articles without:

'utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_term', 'utm_content', 'utm_id', 'utm_campaign', 'gclid', 'fb_xd_bust','fb_xd_fragment', 'hitcount'


For other types of content, we do not add a canonical automatically - but you can always add one manually from the SEF URL manager.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr



 
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 15:11 UTC
soldonald-gmail-com
Hi Yannick,

Thanks for your fast reply!

I'm a total newby on SEF, so I got one question based on your answer;
Will SEF ifnd all the existing utm url's and show them in the url manager? Or how will I be able to "find" these pages via SEF?
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 15:25 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

They won't show in the URL manager because they are not created by us, or by your site for that matters. They are regular URLs from your site (found in the URL manager) with added strings (utm_source,...) by Google Ads systems. So you'll find them on Google

Basically, each link you use on an ad, you want to add a canonical.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr
 
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 15:33 UTC
soldonald-gmail-com
oke thanks!

Im guessing you don't mean that adding a self referring canonical on the url without UTM will do the trick?
I will have to create a list with utm urls and them apply them in the url manager and add the canonical href to the original page??

Will SEF have a problem with SP page builder pages? or does it find these url's as well, just like a normal joomla article?

thnx again

Best,

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 15:40 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

Im guessing you don't mean that adding a self referring canonical on the url without UTM will do the trick?
Hmm, no I said exactly that. On the URLs you want to handle that way, you'll add a self-referencing canonical.

I will have to create a list with utm urls and them apply them in the url manager and add the canonical href to the original page??
Not at all. You do not care about the UTM version. You only need to know about the original URLs, find them in the URL manager and add a canonical (again, this is done automatically for Joomla articles, manual action is only required for other content types).

Will SEF have a problem with SP page builder pages? or does it find these url's as well, just like a normal joomla article?
sh404SEF does not find URLs. Joomla finds URLs and pass them to sh404SEF if they need being transformed to SEF URL. SPPageBuilder is normally following standards Joomla API so it usually works fine (be aware that SPPageBuilder has bugs but those should be fixed soon, I just talked to them today actually).

Joomla will recognize all links in content that are in the form index.php?option=xxxxx&xxxxx. Most links are created like that. If you manually create links in your content (on your site), make sure you use that standard format (ie do not make link such as /my-page-address.html, that won't be recognized by Joomla).

So in short SPPageBuilder works fine with sh404SEF (pending their big fixing).

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

 
Thursday, 19 March 2020 05:34 UTC
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