Why is the defined canonical URL ignored ? | WordPress.org

Resolved arbophil
(@arbophil)

3 years, 11 months ago

Hi !

The site http://www.arborise.ch (also reachable with http://www.arborise.org) is available in three langages and each page has three different URLs, for example:
https://www.arborise.ch/faire-un-don/
https://www.arborise.ch/make-a-donation/?lang=en
https://www.arborise.ch/spenden/?lang=de
I use Yoast Premium 16.1.

Each of these pages has his one canonical href, for example: <link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.arborise.ch/faire-un-don/” />

In addition, the sitemap contains all pages in all three langages: https://www.arborise.ch/page-sitemap.xml

…nevertheless, if we take for example the page https://www.arborise.ch/faire-un-don/, Google pretends (according to the Search Console) that the canonical URL declared by the user is https://www.arborise.ch/make-a-donation/?lang=en (which is wrong!). Consequently Google selects this URL as canonical.

Waht should I do so that Google respects the canonical URL, which I defined as canonical URL (in order that my french and german pages get indexed as well)?

Thank you for your advice!
Philippe

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Saša
(@stodorovic)

3 years, 11 months ago
This forum supports only free version. You should contact https://yoast.com/help/support/#premium

However, it’s more question for WPML support. You should set sub-directories for languages. So, your URLs should be:
```
/faire-un-don/
/en/make-a-donation/
/de/spenden/
```
I think that you can’t remove lang query string if you don’t set “directories”.
Plugin Support devnihil
(@devnihil)

3 years, 11 months ago

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