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Hayley's avatar
Hayley
Mentor
9 years ago

Print version of a page canonical ref

Hi all

I've been given a list of 'duplicate' pages by our SEO team. I can see that most of these pages have the canonical setting to be the original post, so that's fine.

 

However, I see the print version has a completely different URL and therefore a different canonical reference. If I search for the post title on Google, it then appears twice, once as the original post, and once as the print page, and if I click on the print page link I get the print version - out of the context of the community, so it's meaningless to the user.

 

Is there a way to change the canonical reference on the print version so that it's the same as the original post? I don't see the topics dropdown on the print page. 

  • KathleenJo's avatar
    KathleenJo
    Expert
    8 years ago

    I would love to hear an answer to this as question as well. 

     

    Hayley Thank you for posting this topic. 

    • KathleenJo's avatar
      KathleenJo
      Expert
      8 years ago

      So Chad from Lithium Support let me know that to eliminate the print versions showing up in the SERPs you need to place a Disallow in your robots.txt.

       

      Action: Disallow
      User-agent: *
      URL / directory: /t5/tkb/articleprintpage/

       

      I hope this helps Hayley.