[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Missing cannonical URL for search engines on blog index pages (#2851)

Harry Wood notifications at github.com
Sat Jan 16 21:58:11 UTC 2021


I wonder what's the best practice with index pages (pages containing multiple blog posts which each have a more canonical url elsewhere). I wouldn't mind betting we'd be better off just leaving google to figure it out.

The thing is google may decided not to index an individual diary entry at all. Given a choice between this being findable in google via a confusing index page, or _not findable at all_, we'd be better off leaving index pages to be indexed. Meanwhile if a diary entry is popular enough, people will tend to link to the canonical URL and google will know to put it first.

It's weird that https://blogs.openstreetmap.org would outrank the canonical https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary which it links to. I suspect this may be symptom of the way google will aggressively _downrank websites which are hosting spam_. Hopefully our rankings improved since the "Report" features, but we still do have bits of lingering spam (I just found some using... google!)

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