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#7151 – Multiple Canonical Tags

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Saturday, 02 May 2020 12:16 UTC

gs_john

Hello,

My latest SEO audit is saying we have multiple canonical tags on 161 pages of our site. I have confirmed this by viewing the source code: view-source:https://xxxx.com/

Do you know what could be causing this?

In Sh404sef's configuration settings, under the SEO tab, I have Remove other canonicals set to yes.

Kind regards,
John

Monday, 04 May 2020 09:24 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Not only do you have multiple canonicals but also OGP tags (and the non-sh404SEF are not very good, missing most stuff)

K2 would do that but this is an SPPagebuilder page so I don't know whether they are the ones adding that.

I would start by disabling any even vaguely SEO related extension you may have (clearing Joomla cache in between each attempt) .

Also worth asking SPPageBuilder about that, if they are the ones adding that, it might be possible to disable it in settings.

Lastly, you may want to temporarily switch template back to Protostart, Joomla built-in template, as your template may also be doing that.

In Sh404sef's configuration settings, under the SEO tab, I have Remove other canonicals set to yes.

This is working with Joomla-generated Canonical, I think the attribute ordering of that canonical is tripping our removal expression. I'll look into it and get back to you.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Monday, 04 May 2020 09:30 UTC

wb_weeblr

I think the attribute ordering of that canonical is tripping our removal expression.

I take that back, I just checked and the algorithm works regardless of the link tag attributes.

I tested by manually adding "<link href="https://xxxx.com/" rel="canonical" />" to the template and sh404SEF indeed removes it automatically.

So it has to be something adding it back but it's a bit odd as sh404SEF really performs the removal very, very late in the process of building the page, not much should happen after that.

I can see you're going through Cloudflare. Is it possible it's Cloudflare adding it?

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Monday, 04 May 2020 14:36 UTC

gs_john

Hi Yannick,

I did find that SP Page Builder added OG & Twitter cards to PageBuilder pages. I disabled those, they do not have any option for canonical, but that doesn't mean it's not the cause. I posted a request on their forum about duplicate canonicals. If it is them, I'm hoping they add a disable switch for that feature as well.

Only SEO tool I use is SH404sef, but I'll check and see if there is anything else installed.

Never had this problem before, which has me leaning to the latest SP PageBuilder update as the cause.

Thank you,
John

Monday, 04 May 2020 15:04 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

What's odd is that even if SPPB adds this, it should be removed by sh404SEF. On my local machine, I copied your exact snippet:

<link href="https://xxxx.com/" rel="canonical" />

pasted it into my template to be sure it's included in the page and sure enough sh404SEF did remove it.

Let me know what happens with SPPB, we can dig further then.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Monday, 04 May 2020 19:25 UTC

gs_john

Hi Yannick,

I found this in my templates index.php file

     <link rel="canonical" href="/<?php echo JUri::current(); ?>">

I removed it and seems to have fixed the issue, of course the next template update will wipe it out.

Kind regards,
john

Tuesday, 05 May 2020 08:46 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi John,

of course the next template update will wipe it out.

Yep, likely. That's when you should talk to your template supplier and tell them:

- they should not add a canonical in the template
- JUri::current() should never be used for that purpose, it's only the current request path, it's not related to a page canonical URL.

The template is not able to determine which page is the canonical, which is why it should not attempt at setting it.

I will leave this ticket open in case you need to add something. It will automatically close in 2 weeks if no further comment is made.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Tuesday, 05 May 2020 14:28 UTC

gs_john

Hi Yannick,

I reached out to Joomshaper about this, now that I removed that line, all SP PageBuilder pages have no canonical.

Kind regards,
John

Tuesday, 05 May 2020 14:30 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi John,

all SP PageBuilder pages have no canonical.

Perfect then, they don't need any.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Tuesday, 05 May 2020 14:34 UTC

gs_john

Hmm, this is weird. Seems the blog category pages are missing the canonical too: view-source:https://xxxx.com/blog/general/

Tuesday, 05 May 2020 14:35 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Why would they have any? sh404SEF is certainly not putting any such thing.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Wednesday, 20 May 2020 05:34 UTC

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