[RFC] Search engine optimization: canonical link elements

[Dragosvr92]

Couldnt the sid be removed from urls and move its functionality inside a user cookie ?

[Louis7777]

Couldnt the sid be removed from urls and move its functionality inside a user cookie ?

I think that has already been done.


By the way, I have a question. Below are 6 different URLs for the same page:

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http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/
http://www.domain.com/index.php
http://domain.com
http://domain.com/
http://domain.com/index.php

Currently we don't point to a canonical one for the index.

I know that search engines are good at understanding that all the above are the same page, but are they that good that we don't need a canonical link element?

[nickvergessen]

www. to non-www and trailing / is not something we should deal with.

index.php to / is also not a good idea, as mods/extensions sometimes overwrite the htaccess so / leads to portal.php not index.php

[Sumanai]

Duplicate post from another topic
In the current situation, the search engines will index each page twice, the first time with the parameter f =, as almost all the links to the forum include this option in the second visit without the canonical version. The double burden.

[Pete77s]

Most modern search engines have a tool page to not index specific parameters. such as =sid, =f, =etc

[spello]

It's good that you have finally added rel="prev" and rel="next"

[Louis7777]

*** comment from github ***

The generated links do not contain a sid anymore

As a guest I see SIDs everywhere. Is this normal?