Posted by sahuni on April 27, 2012 at 11:47am
Hello,
I wonder how it goes with multilingual installation where not all contents are translated.
My website has 2 languages, but a certain content type will never be translated. And that content type groups around 1000 nodes.
so "mysitename/mycontent name" shows same content as "mysitename/de/mycontent name".
Is that not duplicate content?
in http://www.mysitenam/sitemap.xml, I have:
http://www.mysitename/mytype/alala
and in in http://www.mysitenam/de/sitemap.xml, I have: http://www.mysitename/de/mytype/alala
I have redirect module, but I'm not sure it helps in that matter.
Comments
What is your concern?
Is your concern over usability for site visitors, or search engine placement? As far as SEO, duplicate content is not a problem in itself, it is just that each page of duplicate content will not perform as well (mainly due to a dilution of incoming links if they are split between them), as a single page would.
Google currently (since 2009) recommends using Canonical tags to specify the preferred URL, rather than 301 redirect:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonica...
According to Goggle, this link-tag is currently also supported by Ask.com, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo!.
David Minton, Managing Partner, DesignHammer | Durham, NC, USA
My concern is SEO. I don't
My concern is SEO.
I don't have real problem, I was just wondering because I red a lot about google not liking duplicate contents. But as far, my webranko is not that bad. And if you think it's not a problem for SEO, I would believe you.
Canonical url is a big mystery to me. I thought that now it was integrated in drupal 7. I've never red something clear about that.
Do you have a reference, a documentation with example?
When I look at my source page I have that line:
Is that a canonical tag?
if I'm navigating my website with second language, on a content type not translated, source page gives:
The "/de" in included in url.
Do I have to do something more?
Reference
Here is an official reference from the Google Webmaster Central Blog with code samples, and use case examples:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonica...
David Minton, Managing Partner, DesignHammer | Durham, NC, USA
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Looks like you link was truncated ...
Sorry I wanted to say I
Sorry
I wanted to say I have
<link rel="canonical" href="/mediatheque/alala" />for fist language
and
<link rel="canonical" href="/de/mediatheque/alala" />for secondary language.
is that not canonical tags?
Looks correct
That looks correct, though I don't believe it is necessary (or appropriate) to have the Canonical link in the preferred page. If you have two copies, you only need the link in one.
David Minton, Managing Partner, DesignHammer | Durham, NC, USA
Only truncated in the email version
The link to Specify your canonical blog post on the Google Webmaster Central Blog works fine on the web version.
David Minton, Managing Partner, DesignHammer | Durham, NC, USA
OK I've red the doc (thanks
OK I've red the doc (thanks for the link), and yes I have canonical urls on each content.
So I confirm that Drupal 7 writes canonical url automatically. It takes the path from pathauto if installed. I did nothing to have them.
But I suppose that the purpose of canonical urls is sometimes to give another value. If I wanted to change canonical urls, I'll use one of metatag or metatags_quick modules.
But if you say it's OK to have same content (really same node),
called from default language with
<link rel="canonical" href="/mediatheque/alala" />and called from secondary language with<link rel="canonical" href="/de/mediatheque/alala" />, I'll change nothing.