I think I have spotted an issue worthy pointing out. If the Global Front page is left unaltered under "Advanced" settings, the canonical URL defaults to "www.example.com/node." To fix this, the user must enter the desired front page address manually.
But I also have a question relating to duplicate content being generated by taxonomy terms. I noticed that the taxonomy was generating duplicate content. I went in and modified the metatag configuration for taxonomy terms so that the robots text is "meta name="robots" content="noarchive, noindex, noodp, nosnippet, noydir" /" Is this going to eliminate the duplicate content? Doing 301 redirects is an alternative, but ... figured I'd ask. I guess I could also do a Disallow: /taxonomy/term/ to keep all of these taxonomy terms out, but I really don't know what that will do.
Thanks,
William Maze
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DTWtoMSY CreditAttribution: DTWtoMSY commentedComment #2
DTWtoMSY CreditAttribution: DTWtoMSY commentedAfter researching this issue, I opted to include "Disallow: /taxonomy/term/" in my robots.txt. I figure this to be a temporary fix, because I was unsure how this might impact SEO, but I am looking for more seasoned advice on this issue.
Comment #3
mglamanWilliam Maze, "www.example.com/node." isn't a Metatag bug, that's actually how Drupal handles the home page. I would create an override for through the configuration page. (If you use admin_menu, flush the cache from your front page with it, you'll see it loads /node after the process completes.)
As for taxonomy/term/ and duplicate content I think links for examples would be the only way to truly understand your situation.
If you'd like, contact me via my profile and I can provide some assistance!
Comment #4
DTWtoMSY CreditAttribution: DTWtoMSY commentedI was able to get the override done by manually entering the correct address for the homepage, and I opted to disallow the taxonomy, which was creating duplicate content.
Thanks!
Comment #5
mglamanClosed this as fixed to help out module maintainers and keep queue clean! :)
Comment #6
DamienMcKennaI'm turning this into a documentation task, this is a common need that needs to be documented.