Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged canonicalization

How to add rel=nofollow to Q2A register/login links to curb the number of canonical links?

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 04:19:28 +0000

Google don't like canonical links, it's a burden. And if you pay attention to search business, Google recently has some problems with canonical indexing.

Q2A register and login links does not have rel=nofollow tags, and Q2A developers underestimate this because whenever you browse a Q2A question page, a tag page, a category page, a user profile page, there is a bunch of dofollow canonical links.

Thou we can disallow /register /login in robots.txt, it's still good to add rel=nofollow tags in the first place.

The coding style of Q2A core is hard to add such a small trick.

Recently I have a new Q2A installation. Not many questions, but a horde of excluded pages because of register/login links.

When you have >1000 excluded canonical links, you will understand the matter. Much more painful if the number is 9.6k

Fixing duplicate title tags

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:58:54 +0000

Hi all!

I moved my Q&A site from OSQA to Q2A a couple weeks back now and all has been going well so far!

Google is starting to re-cache my content and so far so good.

I've checked my Google Webmaster Tools and it seems to be telling me that I've got some duplicate title tags. Screenshot is below.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/233981/duplicate_title_tags.PNG

I've got Dave Hannon's SEO Meta Tags v1.0 plugin installed, so I thought that was supposed to fix this issue. Strange.

Any thoughts? How can I resolve this?

Thanks in advance!

How can i add custom canonicalization to categories/tags and other pages?

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:37:06 +0000

I would like to know i can i add the canonicalization tag in a similar fashion proposed in this question:

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/2844/how-to-add-canonicalization-with-absolute-url

In particular i would like to know how can i find if the current page is a category since the if ($this->template=='question') { .... } trick listed in the abover question can't be applied in this case because the template value in case of categories is 'qa' (that seems to be a template used also for other page types).

Plus i would like to know how can i retrieve codewise the canonical urls for categories since i have the following canonicalization problem:

Google has crawled (and detected as duplicate version) three url versions of the same category page:

http://[MYWEBSITE]/qa/categoryname

http://[MYWEBSITE]/qa/Categoryname (capital 'C')

http://[MYWEBSITE]/qa/qa/categoryname

How to add canonicalization with absolute url?

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:40:19 +0000

At the moment im using this in my advanced theme to get the canonicalization:

function head_custom()
{
qa_html_theme_base::head_custom();
$this->output( '<link rel="canonical" href="'.@$this->content['q_view']['url'].'" />' );
}

The output in HTML is something like

How can i change this to get an absolute url? like:

Feature Request: Canonicalization

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:19:33 +0000

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066