Blog canonical | Voters

Blog canonical

planned

Joseph Jones

For SEO the blog and blog post are seen as duplicate pages due to the fact the blog posts do not have SEO separate from the main page sure blog lives

December 26, 2022

Visibility Academy Helpdesk

Reply from support:
“The update from the developer: 
The issue will be resolved in the upcoming release as our dedicated team is diligently working on implementing the necessary fix”
I’ve asked for clarification on when the upcoming release is.

Visibility Academy Helpdesk

YES! This is an absolute ballache of a problem. Have submitted the following Loom to support in case anyone doesn't understand the issue: https://www.loom.com/share/b0e99da3b470404792cc859ca6f47cc7?sid=861666a5-3dc1-4f8e-b52d-6ff855954b16

Rob Impact

Please make sure when this goes live we can set the full canonical URL, not just the extension on whatever domain. Currently building a series of sites on different domains, but all under one sub-account, so stuck with one blog if staying in HL. Having the ability to display posts based on category (to keep content in line with each site), but not to set the canonical for each post, is kinda wild.

Nicholas Papp

Is there any update on this important issue?

27 North Digital

Nicholas Papp You would think that this would be fairly straightforward to add given that they added it for funnels and websites. We need more granular control over the meta data like we have in the web builder. I think it's cute what they tried to do making it more like a word processing application, but they should add elements and features from the web builder into it as well.

Roger Bremmer Jr

Yes my blogs come in with random pages of mine attached be the category and then blog title, domain/c/b/blog/title-here and each one is there own page I can’t add canonical links to to the category page or the b page

Paige Battcher

This is a MAJOR issue. We trusted the blog feature and created 100+ posts that now all have “duplicate non canonical issues” - I don’t really know what it means. 
But the only way I could possibly fix it based on research is via the head code which we don’t have access to. 
Please prioritize this!!!

Joseph Jones

Update - canonical links are now avalaible. So at least there is a work around to get better SEO

Paul G

Joseph Jones: Thanks for this update! Canonical links are now available in the page builder for websites and funnels, under SEO Meta Data, but unfortunately still not available in the blog. Currently the blog automatically duplicates a post under its category and there is no way to prevent this or to fix it. Is this correct?

Joseph Jones

Paul G: yes currently all blog posts and categories are wrapped up into one page like an embedded blog would do. Hopefully in the next few weeks there will be some major updates that are needed

Sales & Marketing

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Dan Butt

Sales & Marketing: So did this ever get done - bing isnt even reading my site.

Paige Battcher

Sales & Marketing: any updates on this? We have 100+ posts that Google is not even indexing.

Jessie George

I confirm this is still occurring and would be a big improvement to site speed across all GHL hosted sites if enabled.

Ben Snape

This is actually worse than just that, in my Google search console, multiple versions of blog posts are getting flagged as duplicates
For example website pages are indexed as:
/missed-call-text-back?page_id=305
/missed-call-text-back
/reviews?p=devotional_detail&id=65
/reviews
There is no need for these extra query strings to be indexed, or even made available for Google to find.

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