I inputted a Canonical HTML tag within the <header> tag of each page's HTML
For example:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.domain.com/Content/introdu ... b-site.htm" />
When I build the online output/web help, the Canonical tag does not appear in the generated output.
I also manually inputted HTML metadescriptions using the Topic Properties. Those appear but I also get an empty metadescription tag, in addition to the meta description that I typed in.
Is there a way to add canonical tags to Flare web output?
This is for v11.1.12
Canonical Tag
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securitypro
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Re: Canonical Tag
Anyone have an answer?
Does Flare offer Canonical support? When I handcoded Canonical tags into the output, they weren't published to the web.
Does Flare offer Canonical support? When I handcoded Canonical tags into the output, they weren't published to the web.
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Nita Beck
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Re: Canonical Tag
Hi securitypro...
Speaking only for myself, I've never even heard of canonical tags until reading your "bump" today. You might end up having to contact MadCap directly, given that it seems like the Flare users who hang around the forums don't have an answer for you.
Sorry I couldn't be of help. Maybe your "bump" will get the attention of someone who knows more than I.
Speaking only for myself, I've never even heard of canonical tags until reading your "bump" today. You might end up having to contact MadCap directly, given that it seems like the Flare users who hang around the forums don't have an answer for you.
Sorry I couldn't be of help. Maybe your "bump" will get the attention of someone who knows more than I.
Nita
RETIRED, but still fond of all the Flare friends I've made. See you around now and then!
RETIRED, but still fond of all the Flare friends I've made. See you around now and then!
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GregStenhouse
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Re: Canonical Tag
Were you adding the <link rel... tag to the masterpage or individual topics? I can understand topics stripping out the code, but I would hope the masterpage would copy the code across as is.
The other thing to try would be adding some JavaScript to the HTML5 skin (under the Toolbar accordion | Custom JavaScript to include in Toolbar box):
The other thing to try would be adding some JavaScript to the HTML5 skin (under the Toolbar accordion | Custom JavaScript to include in Toolbar box):
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$(document).ready(function(){
$("head").append("<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https://docs.domain.com/Content/introducing-company/global-web-site.htm\" />");
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securitypro
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Re: Canonical Tag
I was adding to individual topics which got stripped out. Sounds like a good idea to try. How do you add to the masterpage (and make sure that each individual topic gets a unique URL.GregStenhouse wrote:Were you adding the <link rel... tag to the masterpage or individual topics? I can understand topics stripping out the code, but I would hope the masterpage would copy the code across as is.
Re: Canonical Tag
Hi all,
I'm new to the forum but have been working on a really nice MadCap Flare integration for the past year.
I have a technical SEO background and from an SEO standpoint, this canonical tag is very important.
I would like to bump this question, because the proposed solution with javascript is not good enough. A lot of parsers don't instantiate javascript (for example the crawler from MOZ.com).
So our KB gives us a lot of errors about duplicate content. This comes mainly because after a search there is an ?Highlight=... added to the URL. The original URL and the ?Highlight one are seen as different pages.
With a set canonical tag pointing to the original URL of that page without parameters in the <head> we could get rid of these errors.
Now, my question is:
Is there a way to get the current URL without parameters (as a page variable) as a MadCap Flare setting so I can add it myself to the <head> setting without Javascript?
If not...can you put this on the roadmap?
Thx
I'm new to the forum but have been working on a really nice MadCap Flare integration for the past year.
I have a technical SEO background and from an SEO standpoint, this canonical tag is very important.
I would like to bump this question, because the proposed solution with javascript is not good enough. A lot of parsers don't instantiate javascript (for example the crawler from MOZ.com).
So our KB gives us a lot of errors about duplicate content. This comes mainly because after a search there is an ?Highlight=... added to the URL. The original URL and the ?Highlight one are seen as different pages.
With a set canonical tag pointing to the original URL of that page without parameters in the <head> we could get rid of these errors.
Now, my question is:
Is there a way to get the current URL without parameters (as a page variable) as a MadCap Flare setting so I can add it myself to the <head> setting without Javascript?
If not...can you put this on the roadmap?
Thx
Re: Canonical Tag
I figured out a workaround and wrote an article about it on LinkedIn, so you too can have canonical links in your topic pages until MadCap integrates it in Flare.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/solution ... e-wesdijk-
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/solution ... e-wesdijk-
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GregStenhouse
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Re: Canonical Tag
Nice solution. An alternative to search on replace via SSH on the server is to run a post build command in Flare that calls a Powershell script that does the search and replace. This means it will happen automatically on build, and is available to check locally before upload.