HubSpot Ideas

KStAngel

Use Best Practices for Blog Canonical Tagging

Currently Hubspot offers two different options on canonical tagging for blogs (info here). Neither of those options do exactly what they should. I see some customers have resorted to customized templates, but this seems like something that the platform could easily do better for all of us.

 

Suggested changes:

1) Add a canonical to /blog on /blog/page/1. It is the same content as /blog.  Alternatively eliminate the /blog/page/1 alltogether with a 501 redirect.

2) Add self-referencing canonicals on the deeper pages (/blog/page/2, etc.) This will protect against duplicates from querystrings or varied URLs.

3) Add an option to automatically no-index blog tags. They create duplicate content, devaluing your main index pages.

 

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