1442327 - Remove hreflang in canonical tag

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, enhancement)

Description

[Raphael Raue [:raue] [:rraue]]

We should remove the hreflang attribut in our canonical tag on all pages and locales.

Our canonical is:
<link rel="canonical" hreflang="en" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/"> 

It should be:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">

This could confuse the crawler and is not necessary. The necessary self hreflang link is included and with this setup there could be confusions as the locale is twice in teh setup. It’s even likely, that because of this Google doesn’t understand our canonicals at all.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

If it's just cleanly removing these, here, I might be up for this: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=hreflang&type=Code

Comment 2

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

(In reply to Stephen Donner [:stephend] from comment #1)
> If it's just cleanly removing these, here, I might be up for this:
> https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=hreflang&type=Code

Thanks for the offer, Stephen! In this case, we have a bunch of SEO bugs we want to plough through quickly, so I'm going to take this. Next time if you see something you want to fix, please feel free just to grab it and submit a PR!

Comment 3

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5480

Comment 4

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/07cab9be87d182810d132716e0569d9e5a6b7bd6
[fix bug 1442327] Remove hreflang in canonical tag

Comment 5

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5485

Comment 6

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/ab30d4060b1f159bdb888ece972865cf9b609010
[bug 1442327] Update hreflang headless tests