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Hi Keri,

Thanks for the message! We are getting double content warnings so I thought that the absence of a rel=canonical script was causing the double content warning. Appreciate the confirmation - that saved a TON of time.

Cheers!

Hi Mike,

That's really helpful. Right now we are using "Metatags" so I'll see if we can import that module. I'll have to see if they conflict or not, but you might have solved the problem. Your suggestion is really appreciated - thanks!

Hi Moosa and Vikas,

Thanks so much for the replies. When I go to the blog page there are several fields that can be filled out. It's a basic Drupal content page. I'm not sure which area to put the header information in? It sounds like it doesn't go in the cms editor, but the other areas don't say HEADER or anything obvious like that.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Hello,

I've been trying to get our rel=canonical issues sorted out. A fellow named Ayaz very kindly pointed out that I'm trying to put the code into the wysisyg editor, but this might not be the best place to put the code.

We are using Drupal 6. Where do I insert the code?

head>

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post">

Thanks!

Hi Ayaz,

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to put the rel=canonical code into the wysisyg editor this whole time.

So where should the code be placed? It's drupal, so should I make a block on the page where the rel=canonical text is supposed to be placed? what's the best way to put the code into the head of the source code?

Thanks?

Hi Ayaz,

I'm adding it near the bottom of the text. Does it need to be the first line of text in the blog post?

Thanks!

Hello,

I keep coming back to rel=canonical issues!

I noticed when I "view pagesource" that my drupal blog posting automatically creates

link rel="canonical" href="/sample-blog-title" /< pattern (with the > reversed) in the source code.

I'm getting a lot of Rel=Canonical warnings and double content warnings from Seomoz so I've been trying to insert

link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post"<

but the page won't retain the code for some reason. I'm entering the code in Plain Text, but saving the document as Full HTML.

Is there a better piece of code I can put in to demonstrate that the original blog page is the original source?

Thanks!

Hi Ayaz,

How odd! I was able to control F and find the rel=canonical link in the page source. I wonder why it doesn't show up in wysiwyg??

Thanks for that - very, very helpful!

Hi Ayaz,

That was a great idea to clear the cache. Unfortunately it didn't work.

I'm actually not sure how to verify on the page source code...

Thanks!

Hi,

I've been getting a lot of rel=canonical warnings from seomoz. I went into the original pages and pasted in plain text the following code:

link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post"<

(the > are reversed).

After a few crawls I couldn't see any effect from posting the code. When I went and checked again, it didn't stay in the wysiwyg editor. It disappeared!

We are using Drupal 6. Could someone tell me what code I should be pasting?

Thanks!

Hi Moosa,

Wow - that is a super helpful answer. I don't know how to install a Drupal modul, but it's great to see there is an easy way to do this. Much appreciated! I'll try and figure out how to install that patch and go from there.

Cheers!

Hi Moosa,

We are using a Drupal (6) website. Does that give you enough information? Drupal is its own CMS, right?

Thanks!

Hi Moosa,

Thanks for the reply!

This is the same as a question I asked yesterday, but how do you do a 301 redirect? Is it on the site or on the server? Is there a little piece of html code I can put in to indicate that a redirect is expected?

Thanks!

Hello,

Seomoz flagged a url as having a 404 client error. The reason the link doesn't return a proper content page is because the url name was changed.

What should we do? Will this error disappear when Google indexes our site again? Or is there some way to manually eliminate it?

Thanks!

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your comments. Part of the site does needs to be SSL protected as we collect some sensitive information. Obviously the blog and RSS don't need to be protected in such a way, though.

There are no warnings that I'm aware of, but RSS feeds don't seem to recognize the xml url. Firefox has no problem recognizing it though...

I wonder how hard it will be to make the blog and RSS feed only on a http url?

Cheers!

Hi,

I'm finding our blog's RSS feed won't be recognized by various websites. The feed is on a https url. Is this the most likely problem?

Thanks!

I found the .htaccess file. Inside I can find several places where there is a redirect to use WWW., or not. But I can't find the place where it says redirect http to https. What sort of text might it say?

Thanks!

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the reply. Actually, the original site developer made the 302 redirect. I found the httaccess file, but I can't see how to change the 302. I found several instances in the file where 301 is mentioned, but so far I can't find a reference to 302. Any idea what I should be looking for?

Hello,

We have a temporary redirect (302?) from http url to https url. Seomoz has suggested that we change the 302 temporary redirect to a permanent 301 redirect.

Sounds good.... but how do we do that?!

Appreciate any and all feedback!

Hello,

I'm getting a lot of Seomoz warnings about rel=canonical issues. Is the code below ok to put on our (drupal website) blog?

link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post"<

(with the > reversed).

Thanks!