Hi all,
I have taken on a new client to help with their digital marketing. They are UK based but ship worldwide. They have both Geolocation and LangShop setup to some degree on their website. I suspect LangShop was used first and then Geolocation at a later date. There is no-one internally who can confirm or recall due to staffing changes.
The main issue I see from a SEO perspective is that amount of duplicate content. When a Spanish version of the page is created and a subsequent URL, then this spanish url is marked as the canonical. Then there are 230 odd different versions, each with the canonical set to them, and not the UK/original.
Surely the Geolocation App would set the original as the canonical, otherwise Google will see 230+ versions of every page and they will conflict?
You can see from the above. This was on es/collections/bar-plates/ but on the original UK site the canonical is /collections/bars-plates/. On the German the canonical is /de/collections/bars-plates/ etc etc.
Surely the default setup with this App should also set the canonical to the UK/original?
Added into this, LangShop app is also setup, what looks partially however.
Essentially, I would like some advice on this if anyone could help. This appears to me like this would be a Massive SEO issue.
Can the canonicals be set to the main domain automatically?
Are these apps conflicting?
Should I remove one or both of these?
Appreciate any help with this?