How to display the absolute url for canonical link when Frendly URLs are enabled

Would the Canonical extension help?

Do you have experience with that extra. What kind of link structure outputs?

You can install it and see for yourself. It outputs the full URL of the page, ie.
http://www.somesite.com/gallery.html

This works with "Use Friendly Alias Path" and friendly URLs:

Quote from: mcnickel at Mar 11, 2014, 03:51 PM

This works with "Use Friendly Alias Path" and friendly URLs:

<link rel="canonical" href="[[++site_url]][[*id:isnot=`[[++site_start]]`:then=`[[*uri]]`]]">

Yes it works but that also gives me the full friendly URL.

Quote from: rx2 at Mar 11, 2014, 03:44 PM

You can install it and see for yourself. It outputs the full URL of the page, ie.
http://www.somesite.com/gallery.html

Thanks but this extra also gives me the full freindly URL of the resource.

Maybe this could be a solution even it is ugly:




This outputs: which redirects directly to the resource friendly url.

Could someone tell me the Modx way to do this?

Quote from: ispasov at Mar 11, 2014, 01:25 PM

So I want to inform the search engines that this is the static link and if the url of the resource has changed (the resource is moved under different parent resource) the canonical url stays the same.

Maybe someone could give me better approach to do this.

I'm not sure that using 'rel="canonical"' in this way will achieve what you want. According to Google:

The rel="canonical" attribute should be used only to specify the preferred version of many pages with identical content.

I believe the best way to tell Google, Bing etc of url changes is by using their Webmaster Tools. http://www.genedelibero.com/ask-google-to-re-index-or-crawl-a-page-or-web-site/