Tagged: canonical, duplicate pages, Hreflang
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May 17, 2021 at 10:20 am #1300672
Hi there. I am facing these issues according to Ahrefs and I’d like to know:
1. Why is this happening and my WP did not handle it automatically so these issues won’t come up.
2. How to fix them.I will show now the issues:
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Duplicate pages without canonical
Issue details Pages with duplicate or very similar content that don't specify their canonical version. Although Google asserts that they can automatically choose the best version of the content to show in their search results, it won't necessarily be page version you want to be indexed. That is why similar or duplicate pages of your website must have a "rel=canonical" attribute to instruct search engines to show the most authoritative (canonical) version of the page in search results. How to fix Review all the pages with duplicate content listed in this report. For every page in the group of duplicates, you should pick one canonical version that you want to be indexed in search results. Add its URL to the "rel=canonical" labeling on each page with duplicated content, including the canonical page itself.
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Example:
This page https://www.neotel2000.com/en/2017/07/ Canonical Missing Title July 2017 - Software Call Center CRM Centralita Virtual - Neotel Description Missing H1 Archive for month: July, 2017 Pages that have duplicated elements Page Canonical https://www.neotel2000.com/en/sales-and-marketing-tools-for-your-sme-the-virtual-pbx/Self-reference Title Sales and marketing tools for your SME: the virtual PBX - Software Call Center CRM Centralita Virtual - Neotel Description Sales and marketing tools for your SME: the virtual PBX Software Call Center CRM Centralita Virtual - Neotel H1 Sales and marketing tools for your SME: the virtual PBX Content Similar
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Missing reciprocal hreflang (no return-tag)
Issue details Confirmation (return) links are missing for the pages declared in hreflang annotations. If page A links to page B in hreflang annotations, page B must link to page A in return. If this is not the case for all pages that use hreflang annotations, those annotations may be ignored or misinterpreted correctly. How to fix To fix the issue, make sure all the page versions translated or targeted to users in a certain region have the same set of hreflang annotations which includes URLs to all the page versions. This will always provide return links between the alternate pages.
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Example:
Target page Self-hreflang en HTML lang en-us Page Hreflang from target es Self-hreflang es HTML lang es-es Hreflang to target en Page https://www.neotel2000.com/en/crm/?s=Non-canonical Hreflang from target Missing Self-hreflang Missing HTML lang en-us Hreflang to target en
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Self-reference hreflang annotation missing
Issue details To indicate multiple language/location versions of a page to the search engines, each language version of a page must list itself as well as all other language versions. Hreflang annotations without the self-referencing link may be ignored or misinterpreted by the search engines. How to fix Review all the pages with missing self-referencing hreflang annotations listed in this report. You can see all hreflang links specified for a given page in the table. Make the necessary changes, so that each of these pages has a self-referencing hreflang annotation. For example, a Spanish version of your page must have rel="alternate" hreflang="es" annotation with a link to itself.
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Example:
Target page https://www.neotel2000.com/politica-de-privacidadNon-canonical Self-hreflang Missing HTML lang es-es Page Hreflang from target en Self-hreflang en HTML lang en-us Hreflang to target Missing Page Hreflang from target es Self-hreflang es HTML lang es-es Hreflang to target Missing
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A million thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me fixing these issues!
May 26, 2021 at 12:25 pm #1302401Hey neotel2k,
Sorry for the delay.
Have you tried using Yoast to set a canonical URL for duplicated content or pages? For more info about the plugin feature, please check the following articles.
// https://yoast.com/features/canonical-url-tags/
// https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/WordPress also set a canonical URL automatically but only for paginated pages.
Best regards,
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