Canonical URL for Front & Eliminating Duplicate Content Taxonomy [#2162029]

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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Comment #1

DTWtoMSY CreditAttribution: DTWtoMSY commented 23 December 2013 at 23:32

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Comment #2

DTWtoMSY CreditAttribution: DTWtoMSY commented 27 December 2013 at 00:22

After 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

mglaman

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CreditAttribution: mglaman commented 27 December 2013 at 06:36

William 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 commented 30 December 2013 at 20:40

I 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!