Latest update truncating url for FB share

@casey-annis

Upon checking the page source of this page: https://vintageracecar.com/classifieds-2/show-ad/125956/1965-triumph-spitfire-very-original/production-cars/ we do see the canonical URL on the source code is different than the actual page URL.

Canonical URL by Yoast: https://vintageracecar.com/classifieds-2/show-ad/

Yoast SEO by default outputs the self-referencing canonical URL unless the custom canonical is set from Advanced > Canonical field of metabox.

Facebook and other social media lookup the canonical. Therefore, you may consider removing the custom canonical set on the given page which should fix the issue.

Coincidentally, we noticed another canonical tag outputting on the page source?probably by the theme. You may consider removing it just for avoiding duplicate tag.

Many Thanks.

Despite entering the canonical link under the Yeast advanced settings, FB is still pulling the truncated version, even after repeated scraping.

This was never a problem before the latest Yeost update and it is only an issue on the classified ads on our site. The FB share for all the articles on site still works normally, so it shouldn’t be a problem with the way FB is grabbing the custom canonical?

I’ve got very limited WP skills, so am frustrated with how to resolve this. I can’t turn deactivate Yeost every time I want to share one of our ads.
thanks
Casey

@casey-annis

I’m sorry to hear that the issue still persists.

I rechecked the page source?and do see the custom canonical is still there https://tinyurl.com/y2tafvtz. This is forcing Facebook to consider this as main page URL.

Search engines and social networks give priority to the canonical URL.

Could you please remove the custom canonical so I can reverify the issue on my end?

To be honest, I don’t know how to do that.

Also would this affect our ability to post other articles out of the site on FB?

Hi @casey-annis

You can follow the steps in this article. Please edit that specific post, and ensure that the canonical field is set to blank (so that it should self-reference) and then save the changes.

Yes, this could affect the social sharing, as it will check the canonical URL and see they aren’t the same, and might load an unexpected social preview.

Can you also please try resetting our indexables in the database tables by following the steps below?
1. Install & activate the?Yoast Test Helper plugin
2. Go to Tools > Yoast Test
3. Locate the Yoast SEO section and click on the ‘Reset indexables tables & migrations’, ‘Reset Prominent words calculation’, and ‘Reset Internal link counter’ buttons. After each click, the page will reload to confirm that each reset was successful. Note: Resetting the optimization doesn’t undo any of the hard work you’ve put into the plugin as the SEO data is also stored in WordPress’ default tables. It’ll just reset the custom Yoast tables that contain the combined data pulled from those default tables.
4. Go to SEO > Tools, and under SEO data, click the “Start SEO data optimization” button to allow Yoast to rescan your?content.

For your site’s health and safety, we recommend creating regular backups of your site and database. This is especially important before installing, updating or removing plugins.

Could you check if that helps resolve the issue after resetting and rerunning the SEO data optimization process?

Hi,

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