SOLVED: Canonical tags hurting SEO?
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I don't know why some would not get those warnings. I have to find time to dig into this deeper. I've simply not had enough time but I will at some point. I'm hoping it's me not reading what I'm seeing correctly but I do still get the warnings from Bing every week.
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I'm still getting those and have not had any time to spend on it.
However, out of the blue, I got this from Google;Q&A structured data issues detected in https://support.abc.com/ To the owner of https://support.abc.com/: Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 2 Q&A structured data issue(s). The following issues were found on your site. Top non-critical issues‡ Missing field "url" (in "mainEntity.suggestedAnswer.author") Missing field "url" (in "mainEntity.author") ‡Non-critical issues are suggestions for improvement, but do not prevent the page or feature from appearing on Google. Some of these issues can affect your appearance on Search; some might be reclassified as critical issues in the future. We recommend that you fix these issues when possible to enable the best experience and coverage in Google Search.Most of the notices received don't seem to be things we can even change in the forums, they seem to be at the code level.
Anyhow, thought I'd share and I'm still running 3.4.3, I'll try to upgrade today.
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@NodeHam This is actually a small separate issue with json+ld metadata generated by question-and-answer plugin. I just submitted a fix here: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-question-and-answer/pull/102
edit: it's merged now, version 1.2.5 of the plugin should resolve this issue -
Nice to see they changed this to non-critical
Anyway, this is the actual issue from the structured data update - the changes just weren't released yet (harmony 1.1.102 was the first release with them, but it needs slight changes to NodeBB itself that are still only on develop branch)
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I have another project coming up and I thought nodebb might be a good fit but this canonical thing is making me nervous. The site will 100% count on being indexed but if search engines cannot go through all of the pages, there's no point.
Can anyone at all confirm that this is not a problem for them? I mean, someone who is highly experienced with SEO and search engines, not just someone saying 'works for me' :).
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@NodeHam works for me
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@NodeHam these latest warnings are just that, warnings. You will absolutely not have issues with pages not being indexed.
That said, a lot of SEO depends on proprietary algorithms that we are not privy to. We can only do our best to ensure that the right tags are present, but you, the site owner, have to make sure there is good content to index!
Remember, Google, Bing, Yandex, etc. will never intentionally omit sites just because they don't have "the right tags". There are lots of sites that do absolutely no SEO at all that rank well.
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I think this is solved and I'll explain why.
I was doing a little digging and came across this;
These are some of the older posts in the forums. Searching more, I find nothing what so ever.
I even cut/pasted some specific posts.For example;
"7m outage noted as Internal when it shoud have been Provider"
... and nothing comes up unless I enter the whole title in quotes.
I then tried some others and the same thing happened. Unless I quote them, they never show up BUT that's because of SEO but not in a bad way, in a Goolg way.
The point is, the posts WERE found on Google if I quoted part or full title which means that search engines are in fact indexing the forums.
Do I get a free biscuit or something?
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