If you want to match each url with a single unique item:

URI: ^/en/index.php\?start=12$
URI: ^/en/index.php\?start=18$
...
URI: ^/en/index.php\?start=6$
URI: ^/en/index.php$
URI: /en/

The last item will match ALL URLs that contains the string /en/, so if you really need an item like this (e.g. to use to set something for all remaining /en/ pages), then be sure to set it order as LAST, otherwise it will be found and applied before all the others.

Luigi

Hi Lugi,

Á you see, all the urls are pointing to a section blog layout menu /en/.

the urls index.php, ?start=... are automatically generated by joomla pagination engine.

I just want Google webmastertool ignore the chain of "index.php" and "?start=" by setting right "URI" and "Canonical".

At the same time, my site url type is /en/my-category/my-article. html. Every url of this type has it's own meta title and meta description.

You can create an item that matches with (and only) paginated pages, and set the full canonical url:

URI: ^/en/index.php\?start=

Luigi

Hey Luigi,
I have tried ,exactly how you suggest here,the component,but maybe I have done something wrong,because when I have started,I was having in google webmaster tools 300 duplicate meta descriptions,now I have almost 1000 ...after 2 weeks...
Any ideea?
Thanks

admin ha scritto:

Hi,
I made the same error the first time, but it's right from the Google's point of view.

Let me explain using an example (my case). I have a directory wiht many pages containing list of words under /smorfia.html, so the first page is /smorfia.html, while the others differs jsut for page index, like /smorfia.html?smorfiaPage=2.

To solve the problem I used a canonical /smorfia.html for all these pages, but unfortunately Google warns on title duplicated increased.

The problem is the canonical should be used only when two different URLs are exaclty the same. As example, if you have the same article linked with SEF and non-SEF URLs:

www.site.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12
www.site.com/news/12-myarticle.html

In this case "canonical" helps.

I don't know if this is your problem too, but if not, please advise.

Best regards,
Luigi

Hey Luigi,
After one month , google webmaster tools shows me from 1000 duplicates ,just 168 ,grace to your tag meta component.
Now I have a little problem for www.mysite.com . I have set :
URI : ^/$
Canonical : www.mysite.com
and here I have 40 meta description duplicates like
/
/index.php
/index.php?start=11..
and so on...

With this:



You are saying that only for the home page the canonical is the home page. Maybe it should be better to change this item, so that for "home page alias" like index.php you specify the canonical.

To do this:



And one for the start parameter:



Maybe a better matching rule should be possible if you specify the full URLs...

Best regards,
Luigi

I have this link:

earthship.com/books?page=shop.browse&category_id=6

Would like to change it to:

earthship.com/books

Can I do this with conical? This is for the Category only.

I also have links to products within the category, other books, that I will want to change the link (to remove the question mark, etc.)

thanks!

Hi Jonah,
it seems you need to create an alias (i.e. a short URL that replace the long one), and not a canonical.

The rel canonical is a meta information that specify the reference URL for the current page, so that a search engine can understand which is the "principal" URL and also that this is not a duplicated content.

You can create redirect with ReDJ, but there's a little problem with your request. The redirect rule should be:



In this way you can type the short URL in the web browser and get redirected to long one. With the Enterprise version you can also choose an internal redirect (200) so that the URL in the web browser doesn't change (server side redirect).

The problem is that the URL of any articles don't change (e.g. earthship.com/books?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=47&category_id=6).

I'm here if you need more details.

Best regards,
Luigi