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We have recently implemneted the component sh404sef in in our blog and pagination pages doesn't show canonical or rel=next/prev link:
https://blog.xxxx.es/
https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-1
https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-2
Also, shouldn't the homepage have a canonical automatically generated? It only generates canonical for articles and categories
Hi
pagination pages doesn't show canonical
Pagination is not supposed to show any canonical. Which one are you talking about?
pagination pages doesn't show ... rel=next/prev link:
Can you double-check this is enabled? Under "SEO" => "SEO Management" => "Insert prev/next pagination tags".
Note 2 important things:
1 - This may not work if your template is overriding the Joomla Pagination class, as we rely ourselves on overriding it to be able to know about the pagination
2 - This feature will most likely be removed in the future as Google announced a year ago that they stopped using prev/next rel links.
Also, shouldn't the homepage have a canonical automatically generated
Your home page currently have a canonical.
It only generates canonical for articles and categories
We only generate canonical automatically for articles. That's the only time we can be sure of seeing the actual canonical page.
sh404SEF does not generate canonical for categories. I do not see any canonical currently on your categories page.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
Hi, I didn't see your answer before sorry.
About rel/ prev, yes is set the parameter. (See screenshot)
About categories, I don't know what you mean... Isn't a good practice to show canonical on categories?
One more thing, I see that in pagination only works the first one:
https://blog.xxxx.es/
https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-1
But if you click on the next (I expect to be https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-2) it takes you to https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-1
Hi
About categories, I don't know what you mean... Isn't a good practice to show canonical on categories?
No more than on any other page. You can always include a canonical to each page themselves but that does not really serve any purpose.
Which page should have canonical to which page exactly?
One more thing, I see that in pagination only works the first one:
https://blog.xxxx.es/
https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-1
But if you click on the next (I expect to be https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-2) it takes you to https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-1
There can be 2 reasons for that:
1. The most common reason is that there was a change in number of items per page or similar pagination-related settings and URLs were not deleted since then.
So the first thing to do is to delete all URLs with "pagina" in them from the SEF URL manager, including all duplicates (ie use the button "Delete with duplicates" after selecting URLs in the list, not the regular Delete button.
2 - your template (or an extension) overrides the Joomla JPagination class. sh404SEF needs that to to compute proper pagination so if your template does it as well, we're in trouble. The way to check this is:
- Temporarily switch to one of Joomla default template, like protostar
- Purge all URLs, or at least the ones with "pagina" in them
- navigate to home page to have URLs created again.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
Ok, and how can I stop template from overriding pagination?
Hi
If it does, you can't. Fixing this requires going into the template code and change it which the template maker may or may not do.
What happened when you tried the first, more likely, fixes outlined above?
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
What I have done finally is override the template override and now it seems to be working...
Hi
Glad you sorted it out. I went and check though, and for some reason the links on the page you mentioned above have tracking variables:
https://blog.xxxx.es/pagina-2?utm_campaign=PromoBlogFeb21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Is that expected???
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
No! That's strange, how can be avoided?
Hi
No idea, that's not something sh404SEF is involved in, I noticed it and thought I'd mentioned. Looks like some plugin or template override is acting up. You can search for where you setup "PromoBlogFeb21" for a start. Those variables are link-tracking codes.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
