Home Page Canonical

[kwikstand]

I just went live with Gold and have a few questions.

The home page has canonical link as "http://216.139.232.185/Default.aspx"

How can I edit change this to "www.domainname.net" ?

It has been like this all along and I don't want to lose my page authority. For example, according to MOZ "Default.aspx" has no authority at all, but the plain version has page authority of 41.

[ForumsAdmin]

Home page is a webpage object that you can edit in Website -> Webpages section. The URL defined there is basically the URL used as canonical URL. Unfortunately home page is a special case. You want / or empty string to be treated as the URL for home page but this will not be allowed as a valid value for URL.

This special case however can be handled easily in code. Open App_Code/PageHelper.cs. You will see code like this somewhere around line 531.

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string objectUrl = storeUri.Scheme + "://" + storeUri.Authority + page.ResolveUrl(catalogObject.NavigateUrl);

Update the code to something like this

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string objectUrl = storeUri.Scheme + "://" + storeUri.Authority;
if(catalogObject.NavigateUrl.ToLowerInvariant().Equals("default.aspx"))
{
  objectUrl = objectUrl + page.ResolveUrl("/");
}
else
{
  objectUrl = objectUrl + page.ResolveUrl(catalogObject.NavigateUrl);
}

[kwikstand]

Thanks, but I just tried this and there is no change. The canaonical is still /Default.aspx

[mazhar]

I think there is small problem with code posted by ForumsAdmin.

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if(catalogObject.NavigateUrl.ToLowerInvariant().Equals("default.aspx"))

update this statment to

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if (catalogObject.NavigateUrl.ToLowerInvariant().EndsWith("default.aspx"))

[kwikstand]

Thanks Mazhar. That worked pretty well, as usual.

Thanks,

Scott Kahle