canonical url don’t show if page is nofollow

  • Resolved Digital & SEO

    (@digitalandseo)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    On this page I have enabled the option not to allow search engines to display this page and not to follow the links on this page.
    I saw that in this case the canonical url was not specified; but I’ve put it and it’s still not shown on the front.
    Thank you.

    WP 4.9.8
    Yoast 9.2.1

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  • Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    When you select ‘No’ for ‘Allow search engines to show this [post_type] in search results?’, the canonical URL is no longer needed so the plugin automatically removes it.

    Thread Starter Digital & SEO

    (@digitalandseo)

    Even if there is a noindex (just like when in the robots file you disqualify a directory) google can index it the same. So, if for a remote case it is indexed, it is interesting that it has a canonical URL.
    I do not know why the plugin was programmed according to the deactivation of the canonical url, I think it is better to have a canonical url than not, no?
    Also, I think that if a user “forces” a canonical url to come out the plugin should allow to use that canonical without problems, right?
    I mention it because maybe I only have this perspective of this functionality and I would like to know if I am wrong or not (on the subject that if someone “forces” the url that can be used)

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    Google does not recommend using noindex and canonicals at the same time. Here‘s a recent article discussing it.

    Plugin Support Jerlyn

    (@jerparx)

    Closed. No further concerns.

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