Duplicate content due to Trailing slash in Meta Tags

Hello,

By default, Yoast SEO generates a self-referencing canonical URL. The plugin does this for you, everywhere on your site: single posts and pages, homepages, category archives, tag archives, date archives, author archives, etc. If you want to learn more about why we use self-canonical, please refer to this article.

In the page source, the canonical URL is defined with the trailing slash as:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://cbdkaufen.com/index.php/product-tag/vollspektrum/"/>

Having or not having a trailing slash does not really make a difference. However, if you want to create custom canonical tags for your pages different from the self-referencing canonical URL, you will have to do it manually. To remove the trailing slash, click on the “Advanced” tab in the Yoast SEO Metabox under the default WordPress content editor. You can then enter the URL without the trailing slash there. This will remove the trailing slash.

Hello,
Thank you for your quick answer. Unfortunately it is not quite correct as having or not having a trailing slash will deliver two different versions of the same URL. For a human this does not matter. A Machine will always crawl twice – and this goes towards your CrawlBudget.
Just like www. or non www. URLs do. Therefore there should always be one defined URL.

In my case I have even four crawling issues, as my crawler finds not only the

index.php – but also the trailing slash AND the same both issues in the OG Meta. Both should not be there by default and it seems like a daunting task that I have to do manually re-configure every Tag i have on the site. This really seems to me like a bug as it happens only on Tag pages for products in the WC environment

Is there no other way? Kind regards @maybellyne

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by CBD-?l.

Hello,

We have addressed the issue regarding index.php in your permalinks in the other thread you opened.

We also understand that you will like to set custom canonical URLs in bulk. Unfortunately, the Yoast SEO plugin does not have the option to update the canonical URLs in bulk. In this case, you’ll need to manually update the canonical URLs one after the other.

Thanks.

@cbdoel As you are using Yoast Premium please do not get Yoast support here into trouble by asking them to support you here.

For pro or commercial product support please contact the developer directly on their site. This includes any pre-sales topics as well.

As @maybellyne is aware, commercial products are not supported in these forums. I am sure they will have no problem supporting you there.

@cbdoel The previous response from @jdembowski is correct and if you have purchased SEO Premium you would need to contact us directly at [email protected] for assistance. We are going ahead and setting this topic as resolved, as this forum is reserved for support of the free version of Yoast SEO. Thank you for your understanding.

Thank you everybody! Great support! I found out how itworked: The YoastHelper Plugin solved it after resetting everything in It and renewing the permalinks my problemwas solved.

Happy new year!