Canonical links removed from Standard Meta Tags when site is published?

[skinnybloke]

Hi - just upgraded a site from v9 to v2013.

In the 'Standard Meta Tags' I have a canonical link tag which is displayed in the code but appears to be removed when the site is published. The code is:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22Canonical%20Link%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
<link rel="canonical" href="<actinic:variable name="WebSiteURL" />/acatalog/<actinic:variable name="Canonical Link" />" />
</actinic:block>

Any ideas?

[Mike Hughes]

I know it's an obvious question but it has to be asked:

Is the canonical link variable set for the relevant pages?

Mike

[skinnybloke]

Hi Mike - just did some more testing and it is the variable that is being ignored not the canonical link tag.

I added just the variable to the code and in the preview page it displays the URL correctly, but is not displayed on the published site.

I also added the following without any blocks:

<link rel="canonical" href="<actinic:variable name="WebSiteURL" />/acatalog/<actinic:variable name="Canonical Link" />" />

The published source code displays

<link href="http://www.domain.com/acatalog/" rel="canonical">

[skinnybloke]

That's all a bit weird - suddenly started working correctly - and I'm sure I have not changed anything to make it work.

Thanks for the replies guys.

[peblaco]

Advice.. if you are using SellerDeck filtering “make filtering the default view” the URL changes to a cgi-bin link so you need 301 redirects or a canonical tag, but the canonical tag cannot use the variables store folder and page name for filtered pages as it causes a problem for search engines listings as they cannot index content. See this post for details: http://community.sellerdeck.com/showthread.php?t=55375