Change Canonical link default

[wouterj]

I recently watched this talk by Matt Cutts about the canonical link element: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM

Here, he states that the canonical link element should be the last thing to do when having duplicate content. Things you should do first are 301 redirects and a good sitemap.

We currently default to the canonical link usage. Shouldn't we change it to 301 redirect instead?

[ElectricMaxxx]

👍 for change.

[dbu]

fine for me. but if we do that before announcing the cmf release, we should release a 1.0.1 version and note the BC break in the changelog. if we only do it after, it should go into 1.1 probably

[ElectricMaxxx]

What to do here as we forgot that issue?

[dbu]

put it into 1.1 and do a changelog entry?

[wouterj]

We should change the whole canonical link thing imo. Canonical links serve more purposes than replacing the redirect.

[dbu]

is this now a 2.0 issue or should we do it for 1.2? doing it in 1.2 could be unexpected.

[wouterj]

Yeah, let's skip for 2.0

[ElectricMaxxx]

👍

Am 20.09.2015 um 15:03 schrieb Wouter J:

Yeah, let's skip for 2.0

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