Hello,

I would like to know if for canonical links (in canonical field) it must be writed the full URL, or can be used a regexp...
www.mysite.com/mylink1.html or ^/mylink1.html

Thanks

No,
the field “Canonical” allow to set the rel “canonical” meta information on the matching URLs. More information on how to use the rel “canonical” meta tag in efficient manner are available here:

www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Best regards,
Luigi

admin ha scritto:


OK Luigi,my question is, in your joomla component what to write.Let's take the example.
EX: I have this site with 3 links (all with same content),generated by a joomla component:
www.mysite.com/myexamplelink.html
www.mysite.com/category1/myexamplelink.html
www.mysite.com/category2/myexamplelink.html

I want www.mysite.com/myexamplelink.html to be considered by google.
I should put this url in metaTag canonical field?

Thanks

You must set the field canonical to:



And this is what you will find in the pages.

L.

admin ha scritto:


Understand, now it's perfect,very happy to bought TagMeta, because I have searching for long time,something like this.

Thanks,again!

Thanks to you for using Tag Meta.

I would like to suggest to take a look at the new Tag Meta tutorial (just released, few minutes ago).

www.sistemistica.it/download/item/joomla/tagmeta-tutorial.html

Luigi

Thank you very much for the useful plugin and component.

I just installed it yesterday and see a great result in description of "Section/Category Blog" menus.

I've read through your guide but still don't know how to set canonical.

For example. Google tells that I have duplicate content in following urls: (SEF on, Apache Rewrite ON)

1. www.mysite/my-category/my-prefered-article
2. www.mysite/my-other-category/my-prefered-article
3. www.mysite/my-section/my-prefered-article

Please give me the instruction how to set the URI and canonical for this case.

Best Regards,

danoctav ha scritto:


Hi Danoctav,

I have same question as yours. Please tell me how did you set URI syntax in this case?

Hi.
The field "canonical" just must contain the URL that Google should consider "the canonical".

So, for this example:



Suppose that the first one is the "canonical", you could create an item like this:



And set for this the canonical:



Two additional words:

1) It was possible to match with a single item the three URLs because they all have a "common part".

2) Be sure that you don't need to match one of these for other meta info. At the moment Tag Meta apply only the first item. But while this behaviour will be preserved in future for ReDJ, Tag Meta will be modified to support "multiple items" in the ordering set.

For more info, ask please.

Luigi

I have duplicate meta tags and meta description in the following urls:

/en/
/en/index.php
/en/index.php?start=12
/en/index.php?start=18
/en/index.php?start=24
/en/index.php?start=30
/en/index.php?start=36
/en/index.php?start=6

Please help to set URI.

Thanks