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Hey Guys,

we are facing a problem in our www.batuta.com with Facebook shares.

Seems like because we choose to set our preferred canonical version urls to end with a trailing slash ( / ), like this one e.g.:

www.batuta.com/الوجهات/إسبانيا/

Facebook adds automatically another ( / ) when trying to read the url on first share before its ever indexed in FB. Which makes Facebook think its a bad request! cause then the URL has two // at the end of it.

hope this was clear.

anyway, so first question: did anybody face this issue before? any solutions?

Second, and might be more important:

I might be forced to face the option of changing the canonical tags to be a url without a ( / )

if I will have to do this I will enforce a redirect on every url request with an ending trailing slash ( / ) to be redirected to the new canonical version without.

will this be enough? how big am I supposed to suffer here? am I facing a long time with double indexed urls?

wonder if anybody faced this problem before!

Best Regards

Hey William,

thats quite a beautiful educating response you have there:-)

helped me a lot in phrasing my problem better and doing a thorough better check.

still looking into the responses in the post you linked to here, and it is quite lots of options, lots of information but a very enlightening post !

Thanks for your referal to that post and will update you if one of the options in the comments there will turn to be explaining what we have.

Best Wishes

Hello Jane,

Thanks for your response. we did have other problems with the placing of the GA code in our general page code, but meanwhile its loaded right after the header with only some few Javascript directories in the header.

Added this to the development team requests in order to be sure. though I wonder if this is it.

Will update here if we fix this soon to be sure that firing the GA code first will solve such a problem.

We do deal with targeted audiences with slow internet thats for sure.

So thanks for highlighting this option!

Best Wishes

Hello Everybody,

Can somebody help me figure out this puzzle:

My WMT is showing 6000 clicks, while my Organic Traffic in Google Analytics is showing only 3500 daily ... how is that possible?

Best Regards

What if :

I had the Visa content on a separate URL before:

www.mydomain.com/CountryName/VisaInfo

and I redirected it to the new One travel guide consolidated content section of visa:

www.mydomain.com/CountryName#VisaInfo

?

Will the old URL (with Page Title and Meta Description) still be indexed and the traffic that used to get there gets to the new exact Visa section on the new page?

Does Google still don't index Hashtag Links ? No chance to get a Search Result that leads directly to a section of a page? or to one of numeras Hashtag Pages in a single HTML page?

If I have 4 or 5 different hashtag link section pages , consolidated into one HTML Page, no chance to get one of the Hashtag Pages to appear as a search result?

like, if under one Single Page Travel Guide I have two essential sections:

#Attractions

#Visa

no chance to direct search queries for Visa directly to the Hashtag Link Section of #Visa?

Thanks for any help

thanks a lot !

I can use different page titles and meta description for each one of the 4 Hashtag still right?

and having 4 canonical to 1 will make google index only the canonical or no?

thanks a lot for your help by the way !

i want to move this 4 url page

http://www.batuta.com/الوجهات/السعودية/المملكة-العربيّة-السعوديّة/قبل-السفر-إلى-السعودية/

to be a hashtag move under the image in this URL :

http://www.batuta.com/الوجهات/السعودية/

no not at all. I'm just implementing a new design.

Hey guys,

I need help.

hope it is a simple question : if I have horizontal 4 text pages which you move between through hashtag links, while staying on the same page in user experience, can I canonical tag the URL free of hashtags as the canonical page URL ? is this white hat acceptable practice? and will this help "Adding the Value", search queries, and therefore rank power to the canonical URL in this case?

hoping for your answers.

Best Regards, and thanks in advance!