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#186891

Hi,

I’ve noticed a massive drop in traffic after installing Ja Wall template in Joomla 3.0. I believe it’s related to rel=”canonical” in the template itself. Basically, I run a news site (sciencefictionworld.com) and on every news article there is a rel=”canonical” in the source that points to the main category. For example, below is a basic extract of the source from a normal article. Notice the LAST LINE. It’s basically saying that this article (the first line) is just a slightly different link with the same content (from my understanding rel=”canonical” is when you want to tell Google that the link is only slightly different but the content is the same).

Could someone please let me know if this is correct? Perhaps this has happened die to my template modifications? If it is, how do I make the template automatically remove the rel=”canonical” from each of my articles?

Thanks,
John:eek:

<base href=”http://sciencefictionworld.com/films/science-fiction-films/1161-cloud-atlas-delivers.html” />
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Cloud Atlas, Cloud Atlas review, David Mitchell, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry” />
<meta name=”author” content=”John Howell” />
<meta name=”xclass” content=”hilite item-review” />
<meta name=”description” content=”The Cloud Atlas film adapted from David Mitchell’s book is a cinematic epic.” />
<title>Cloud Atlas delivers – Science Fiction World</title>
<link href=”http://sciencefictionworld.com/films/science-fiction-films.html” rel=”canonical” />

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#491628

Hi bowman999,

As you know, Joomla 3.0 has this issue.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=793842
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=29319

And it is fixed on Joomla 3.1 i think. Please upgrade to Joomla 3.1 or just overwrite this file on your server.
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/master/plugins/system/sef/sef.php

Hope it helps,

Regards

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