It would be nice to be able to edit a canonical on blog pages. We have urls with and without capitals and fear that Google is seeing this as duplicate content. Hubspot supports canonicals but we need to be able to edit them.
Thanks for your feedback on this thread.Based off of your feedback and varying needs of our diverse customer set, wechanged a few things that are now live for everyone.
First, HubSpot will automatically set self-referencing page and blog post canonical URLs by default, like we did before. These URLs will remain editable on a per page/post basis.Any URLs you have customized to this point will NOTbe impacted by this change.
Second, we've changed the default behavior for blog listing pages. HubSpot will not set a canonical URL by default for all blog listings pages.
@SeanHenri thanks for bringing up that concern about the change in default behavior! Given that search engines have gotten really good at attributing canonical content, we felt setting the default as blank was the most appropriate. That way, in the event the search engine was wrong you would have canonical tags as a solution. Had we defaulted to self-canonicalize and the search engines had it wrong, the problem would be much harder to troubleshoot.
Re: Ability to edit canonical tag on all COS pages - changed to: Delivered
If we have 2 copies of a page on a site (not best practice, but there are sometimes reasons for this) we can set both canonical tags to only point at the "original".
If we want to host content that is originally from another domain, we need to be able to edit the canonical tag to point the original source of the content.
Being able to edit canonical tags in this way is essential for us to prevent duplicate content impacting SEO performance. HubSpot's automatically generated canonical tags help for the majority of cases, but not being able to edit them for certain occasions like the above is limiting our options. At the very least we should be able to switch them off on a per-page basis so the canonicals can be coded in manually.
We are also runnning into this issue where we've syndicated some content from other sources and want to make sure we preserve the original source. Has anyone made any progress here?
Having the ability to edit tags in the header would make life much easier.
Currently, the inability to manage/edit canonical and href lang tags adequately prevents me from recommending hubspot to my clients. This needs to be addressed if hubspot want to be a website/marketing platform leader.
We discovered another issue related to this today. When enabling AMP on pages in HubSpot, the canonical tag for the AMP page is automatically set to point at itself, rather than the non-AMP original.
@jakebellacera Thanks. I included it here as I think the issue caused by the same limitation - HubSpot automatically points a page's canonical tag at that page, with no option to edit to point somewhere else. However, I'm still quite new to AMP so if there's something I'm overlooking or if HubSpot handles it differently to Google guide I linked to then let me know!
I have inadvertently duplicated a lot of blog content recycycling posts from an old "archive" blog that was migrated to HS into the current one. Now I really need this feature because both the old and the new versions are indexed by google.
Being able to edit canonical links would be awesome but there's this profound default coding issue with Blog Listing pages' rel=canonical, rel=prev and rel=next tags that should be prioritized and fixed asap.
I am using our Blog Listing pages as an example here but checked some other companies blog listing pages (that are using HubSpot) and the same mistakes apply...
This is a necessary functionality that needs to be included in order for Hubspot to be considered by a large scale client of ours. Please notify me when it becomes available.
I have to agree with this entire thread. The ability to add our own canonical tags on our website is essential for our industry - especially for the ability to post our news releases on our site without Google thinking we've taken content from another source (the media outlet or newswire used to relay the story/release info). We really love our hubspot tools, but this presents a huge problem for accurate SEO practices. Please fix ASAP!!
Just curious if a work around is to place the canonical tag in a Custom HTML module on the blog post? I tried this with one of our recent blogs that was from an original source.
