wrong canonicals

Hello Johan,

Thanks for reaching out about your canonical URLs. I can confirm https://www.altares.be/fr/actualites/ has the wrong canonical URL:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.altares.be/fr/nieuws/" />

When you reset Indexables & migrations with the Yoast Test Helper plugin, was re-running the Start SEO data optimization successful?

Hi Maybellyne,

No, it didn’t solve the issue. So, I’m a bit stuck in resolving this.

Thanks for the feedback, Johan. By default, a page should canonicalize itself. But since this is not happening for https://www.altares.be/fr/actualites/, I suspect there might be a plugin/theme conflict. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts.

Do let me know how it goes.

All checked. Unfortunately it didn’t solve the issue.

Hey Johan,

Thank you for your reply and testing.

I see TranslatePress running on your multilingual site. Are you running their SEO addon to make them work better with our plugin? See this tutorial: https://translatepress.com/yoast-seo-multilingual-tutorial/ – I’m not so familiar with how TranslatePress hooks into our plugin and the content on your site in relation to the slugs. If you are running their SEO addon already and configured it, I’d recommend reaching out to their team and ask how to troubleshoot this.

Hi Jeroen,

Yes, we use the SEO addon for TranslatePress. I already reached out to TranslatePress. They couldn’t give me useful pointers. There is still a problem with the canonicals on the archive pages. But the last crawl of the Ahrefs Audit tool (this morning) showed us a much better health score than the weeks before. We went up from 26 to 95. This score indicates the internal urls that doesn’t have errors. Maybe the Yoast helper plugin did help after all.

Hey Johan,

Thank you for your reply.

Happy to hear most got sorted, but when I load view-source:https://www.altares.be/fr/actualites/ – I still see the Dutch version in both the canonical and the og:url tags. I’m still unsure as well on why this is happening and how TranslatePress works with slugs/permalinks in other languages than your default language. Just one thing I noted in the source code is that you are WProcket as a caching solution, just double checking – you did clear the cache after you did reset the indexables, right?

Hi Jeroen,

That’s is a good / useful pointer. I will try first clearing cache and then use the reset button. FYI: we not using WPRocket for cache, just for JS optimization. Cache is serverside cache by Kinsta.