canonical tag for sitemap.xml

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canonical tag for sitemap.xml

ChristianaHoJo opened this issue a year ago · comments

Christiana Holland-Jobb commented a year ago

Hi,
is it possible to set sitemap.xml as canonical? Google Conversion crawled sitemap.xml with URL params and complaines dublicate content.
I look forward to an answer,
Christiana

Karmalakas · Answer 1 · Wed Mar 15 2023 00:36:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

IIRC, canonical link tag should be set on the page itself if you have multiple URLs for that page, and not in the sitemap. Sitemap itself does not support canonical URLs

Christiana Holland-Jobb · Answer 2 · Wed Mar 15 2023 17:59:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @Karmalakas,
the canonical tags for pages are set on the pages themselves. Google has found a sitemap link with params

/sitemap.xml?213ddf9382cb3d7ffb633e793782271d=txxauhotljhbrj

Can't find out where that URL came from. So I wonder If I can set an canonical marker to the xml file but didn't found a good solution.

Karmalakas · Answer 3 · Wed Mar 15 2023 18:05:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This doesn't look like something generated by GRAV. Check your setup on Google account if you maybe have such link defined somewhere there. Otherwise my best guess would be, that Google found this link somewhere in the wild.

I guess you could add a permanent redirect in .htaccess directly

Christiana Holland-Jobb · Answer 4 · Wed Mar 15 2023 20:13:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, an redirect will be a short fix. I already thought that you can't store a canonical attribute in xml.files as a general solution.
Thank you for your answer.