Magento 2 SEO Settings

[Sparetoolparts]

Hi guys

I'm circling back round to my Annual SEO things on my Magento 2 website since my busy season of orders is behind me :-(

I'm looking at my Search Console and I see lots of Duplicate without user-selected canonical issues

I'm looking firstly at low hanging fruit and I see URLS with the following prefix at the end of the URL's

.html?PageSpeed=noscript


so I would assume I have 2 versions of the page one which ends with .html and one that ends .html?PageSpeed=noscript and Google doesn't know which one to Index. so Indexes neither.


Magento has an SEO option built in

Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories - Y/N (currently Set to N)
Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products - Y/N (currently Set to N)

But I'm not sure if Y is selected what it actually will happen. Will this only allow .html versions of the Category and Product pages to be indexed and Add No Index Follow to the other versions of the page?

I'm sure I can use .htaccess file to control this plus other things, but TBH I thought I already had done this

 

[makeusvisible]

The feature you have described adds a 'rel canonical' tag to the pages, so you are effectively telling Google which page is the authoritative one to rank.

M2 has in-built features in order to properly handle duplicate pages/products/categories, but like most things with M2 you would want to exercise extreme caution before making changes, as the wrong change could have as much a negative impact as positive.

 

[Sparetoolparts]

so I would assume it would ignore the urls with ?PageSpeed=noscript etc and set them no index follow.

what strategy should I use to make sure it doesn't cause more issues than it solved?

 

[makeusvisible]

so I would assume it would ignore the urls with ?PageSpeed=noscript etc and set them no index follow.

what strategy should I use to make sure it doesn't cause more issues than it solved?

I can't give you an accurate answer to that without a greater understanding of the site. With potential htaccess changes thrown into the mix, there's quite a bit of room for disaster given the wrong advice, and I wouldn't want to be the one that caused you to find yourself de-indexed.

The Magento community forums are worth a look if you are invested in undertaking the work yourself, but I would be very cautious about taking advice from anyone who hasn't had full access.

 

[webjaved]

You could always turn the options to (Y) and quickly check it out to see if it's made a positive change.

The query string at the end isn't a new late, it's still the same page but the parameters passed to the end of the URL.

I've not developed in M2 for a long time now. Are you using SEO modules?