NoIndex tag, canonical tag or automatically generated H1's for automatically generated enquiry pages?
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What would be better for automatically generated accommodation enquiry pages for a travel company?
NoIndex tag, canonical tag, automatically generated H1's or another solution?
This is the homepage: https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/
You would enquire from a page like this: https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation/sunshine-coast/twin-waters/the-sebel-twin-waters
This is the enquiry form: https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation-enquiry.php?name=The+Sebel+Twin+Watersion_name=Sunshine+Coast
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Hi Tom,
This is fantastic, thank you especially for being so thorough. I was aware of the redirect issue, but this will help me take it to my IT team with an easy to follow solution.
I do have to admit, I'm not 100% clear on the suggested solution for the automatically generated enquiry forms.
Were you saying once the redirect issue is amended the enquiry pages do not need further attention?
Thanks again,
Kim -
- Hi
Your website is not doing a proper 301 redirect from https:// to https://www.
I believe that is what’s causing your problem. And you do not have a self referencing canonical on your route domain which is very important to have.
(For example, search crawlers might be able to reach your homepage in all of the following ways:
- http://www.example.com
- https://www.example.com
- http://example.com
- http://example.com/index.php
- http://example.com/index.php?r...)
you can use a 301 redirect generator like this
https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/page-to-page/
https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
You want to fix this right away
Google doesn’t like automatically generated pages Content page's we very seldomly does google reward them with any rankings if you’re talking about waiting on me to Content.
but regardless to answer your question
This is the homepage: https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/
URL Canonicalization Test https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au and https://discoverqueensland.com.au should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not.
In order to pass this test you must consider using a 301 re-write rule in your .htaccess file so that both addresses (https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/ and https://discoverqueensland.com.au resolve to the same URL.
You want to redirect https://www.discoverqueensland.au to https://discoverqueensland.com.au, you can use this:
read
https://ahrefs.com/blog/301-redirects/Redirect entire domain from non-www to www and HTTPto HTTPS
1 RewriteEngine On 2 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC] 3 RewriteRule ^ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] 4 RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https 5 RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off 6 RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
1 https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation/sunshine-coast/twin-waters/the-sebel-twin-waters https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation/sunshine-coast/twin-waters/the-sebel-twin-waters
if you’re using Nginx use One of the two converters below
https://winginx.com/en/htaccess
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/convert-htaccess-to-nginx
This is the enquiry form: https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation-enquiry.php?name=The+Sebel+Twin+Watersion_name=Sunshine+Coast
The
CANONICAL is right on your last URL Result Input URL Canonical 1 https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation-enquiry.php?name=The+Sebel+Twin+Watersion_name=Sunshine+Coast https://www.discoverqueensland.com.au/accommodation-enquiry.phphope this was of help,
read
https://ahrefs.com/blog/301-redirects/
Tom
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