Change canonical URL

eveliensanne · Member · June 20, 2017 at 5:35 pm
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Hi!

When trying to link to our blog on Facebook, Facebook actually does not automatically create a link to our homepage but creates a link to the /contact page.

We checked the FB debug site which says that http://www.sayyestonewadventures.com/contact/ is our canonical URL. I suppose this is the reason why it automatically links through to the contact page instead of to our homepage.

Is there a way to change the canonical URL and is it a problem for SEO/Google that our canonical URL links to the contact page?

Many thanks!

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ricardpriet · Theme Author · June 21, 2017 at 12:24 pm
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Hi eveliensanne,
Thank for writing :)

Yes, it’s true, your og:url is pointing to your contact page instead of your homepage. As it is a WordPress.com configuration and we are not able to do anything form the our side (the theme), let’s add a WordPress.com Staff member to help us with your issue.

Thanks!
Ricardo P. from SiloCreativo
kathrynwp · Staff · June 21, 2017 at 3:12 pm
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Hi there, I’m looking into this and will keep you posted.
kathrynwp · Staff · June 21, 2017 at 3:49 pm
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I think we’ve solved this issue by removing all pages previously set in your Static Front Page settings area, and then clearing the Facebook cache using their debugging tool.

The correct og:url tag is now showing and the homepage is now linked when you share the site on Facebook.
eveliensanne · Member · June 28, 2017 at 6:02 am
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Hi both, thank you so much for your help!
ricardpriet · Theme Author · June 28, 2017 at 10:22 am
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Fantastic @eveliensanne! Nice to hear it worked.

Thanks @kathrynwp for your help :)

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