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Thank you for your answer and suggestions. Google indexed the one without the context, but I think the one with context should be better.

301 redirect is not possible since we want the article to show up in other categories and keep the visitors in the section he was before the click.

I am wondering how you would choose which page to use as a canonical ?

All our articles sit in an article section and they are called in the url when linked from a particular category. Since some articles are in many categories, we may have several links for the same page.

My first idea was to put the one in the article category as the canonical, but I wonder if Google will lose the context of the page for it's ranking because it will not be in the proper category.

For exemple, this page in the article section : http://www.bdc.ca/en/advice_centre/articles/Pages/exporting_entering.aspx

Same page in the Expand Your Sales > Going Global section :

http://www.bdc.ca/EN/advice_centre/expand_your_sales/going_global_or_international_markets/Pages/RelatedArticles.aspx?PATH=/EN/advice_centre/articles/Pages/exporting_entering.aspx

The second one has much more context related to it, like the breadcrumb is showing the path and the left menu is open at the right place.

For  this example, I would choose te second one, but some articles may be found in 2 or 3 categories.

If you could share your lights on this it would be very appreciated !

Thanks

Hi,

Our site has a page for new visitors to select their language to view our website So if you type our brand adress (http://www.bdc.ca) you should be redirected to this "splash" page (http://www.bdc.ca/pages/splashpage.aspx).

What is the SEO impact of doing this and is there a better way for users to choose their languages, SEO-wise (and UX wise) ?

You'll also see that after the visitor select its language, he's redirected to the actual home page using a two 302 redirects ( one to bdc.ca/en/ and then another one to the actual home page).  I am aware of this and I know this is really bad.

Please share what you think would be the best way to manage this language selection in respect to SEO, but with respect to UX too.

Thanks !

Jean-François Monfette

Thank you for your answer.

I convinced our IT team to put build the title field in our CMS to be able to write our own titles.

I was very skeptical of this client side javascript solution too. Now I can work with confidence.

Thank you for your answer.

PHP is not an option since our website is running on an IIS server. I cannot fetch it as Googlebot yet because the solution is only in our development environment.

Hi, I asked our IT team to be able to write custom page titles in our CMS and they came up with a solution that writes the title dynamically with javascript.

When I look on the page, I see the title in the browser, but when I look in the source code, I see the original page title.

I am thinking that Google won't see the new javascript title, so it will not be indexed and have no impact on SEO.

Am I right ?