Ken Shea Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Hi All Should there not be a "<link rel="canonical" shown in the page source on the Home page? Thanks Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 homepage.com homepage.com?page=2 homepage.com?sort=2a These are all homepage URLS. It's not necessary to have rel="canonical" on the first one, only the variants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Shea Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 (edited) Hi Ashley, My visits and sales have dramatically dropped and am thinking it has to be more then the economy here and likely related to the mostly ignored (because it is so confusing)SEO . There is only one home page the rest are all product pages. When I look at the source page of other related sites that show up in searches they seem to show the rel="canonical" = website name URL. Does this change any of you reply answer? Thanks for your valuable input. Ken Edited September 4 by Ken Shea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 I was assuming that you are using V4 osCommerce, is that the case ? V4 osC does actually put a rel canonical link on the homepage, the format is like this : <link href='' rel='canonical' hreflang='' /> so you may miss it at first glance. You can do fine SEO wise without utilising a rel canonical tag, many sites get them wrong any way. Also it is not a directive, so Google will determine its own canonical version of your URLs. There's not enough information to start suggesting why there may be a drop in your site traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Shea Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 Yes, using V4 You are correct, had done a search with it not showing up, may have misspelled it. Does this look correct? <link href='https://ontargetsportsonline.com' rel='canonical' hreflang='en' /> Thanks much, you've been a big help. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 46 minutes ago, Ken Shea said: Does this look correct? <link href='https://ontargetsportsonline.com' rel='canonical' hreflang='en' /> Yes, that is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotclutch Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 6 hours ago, Ken Shea said: My visits and sales have dramatically dropped... If you have migrated from a V2 shop AND made provision to preserve your URLs then a drop in traffic is normal. It will only be a small drop and for a relatively short period of time (about a month), then your SEO position returns to normal. If you did not preserve your URLs then all that built up link equity will be lost. You will have a steep drop off in traffic, and it will take some time to recover your initial position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Shea Posted September 4 Author Share Posted September 4 They were monitored for a nice bit of time with quite a few redirects created to go to the correct product. The site has been live for over a year. Could be the economy, don't believe I'm alone. Thank you Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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