deandid

All is good here. Updates solved the problem. Thanks.

ok, well considering they are populated dynamically (assuming when the page loads) this is why people are having issues with memory.

Yeah, this is such a poor decision that doesn’t take into account how Google crawls sitemap files.

Ok, my problem was that I had a password protection on my site and I believe admin ajax connects as guest so it couldnt access whatever files it was trying to access.

I am only seeing it on the actual product page where cf7 is in the footer. Regardless if I put an email address in or not..and just click submit it just spins forever. Archive page, homepage (even the same module in the footer that is also on the product page), and other pages cf7 is on it works fine.

EDIT: I found issues on the My Account page as well as others but only when I am logged out. I don’t see any issues when I am logged in.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by deandid.

Also seeing this.

Please don’t. I needed to update everything on my site to confirm that wasn’t the issue. I have updated everything including Yoast and can confirm that on my end there are no canonical tags on variation pages that point to the main URL for the product.

Any ideas what may be causing this?

I mean just kinda treat them as folders where you have an option like “View Snippets Grouped by Tag” and it then just shows you a list of your tags with a count indicating how many snippets are “in” each tag. With a single snippet being able to be attributed to multiple tags I would recommend not looking at this as a problem and let the same snippet appear when the user clicks either of the tags it is attributed to.

I think this is best because it doesn’t add any new functionality to the backend and is, I think, just a front-end endeavor(?).

By the way, thanks for being so responsive with this. I think this will add real value to those of us who have a bunch of snippets we are working with. What I believe this evolves into, at least for me, is a way to sensibly organize them together because the next most logical step (beyond just being able to manage the snippets more effectively) is to determine which groups of snippets should be isolated (in our thinking) and turned into an actual plugin.

The main thing would just be the ability to collapse everything into folders. I currently have over 50 snippets. Mostly active but some that will be in the future for purposes not needed now. Just adds up to a giant list we are always fishing through.

You could probably just use the current tag system so as not to introduce any new tagging/folder naming and just allow us to view the snippets grouped by tag. The problem with this would be snippets with multiple tags (unless you show snippets in all groupings they are attributed to. Just thinking out loud here..maybe an additional folder system is neccesary?

going to test and post back. thanks for the advice.

“Just to clarify, are you having an issue where one of your product URLs with the variation string isn’t outputting the canonical URL field when checking the page source?”

— Yes, this is exactly what I am seeing. Looking into a possible cause but please let me know if you can shed some light.

I will add that it seems like this is as simple as a setting for “Use Canonicals on Product Variables” and if you want to override it then you have to do it manually. This would probably be the easiest solution.

I am not at all asking for SEO advice? I just asked if, in your plugin, Canonical URLs are automatically placed on the page (because I do not see them).

My only other question was in direct regards to how your plugin works with – or if it works with – WooCommerce Product Variables. That is all.

I don’t need SEO advice on this topic. This topic is a solved problem in eCommerce and the solution is that unless the content is different then canonicals should be used. If they are not, like in the case of many Amazon products, then you should not. Pretty much exactly what Google recommends (partly making it a solved problem).

Sorry if I wasn’t clear on the fact that I was only asking about features within the Yoast. When I read that this thing supported WooCommerce I figured it would account for this very common scenario.

related:

Do canonical URLs have to be placed manually within each product page or is there some automated addition of the canonical tags?

This doesn’t really offer a solution vs. just a general explanation.

This feels like its being to lightly and some of the recommendations in the link provided don’t work for many sites. I have almost 200k products with variations that have same product description. Without canonicals, it would be a mess.

Any idea on how to resolve this?