SEO Title and Meta on Google

Hi,

Could you please provide the value of the 'Cross-posted Topic Canonical URL' option? You can find it under Dashboard > wpForo > Settings > Addons Settings > 'Forum - Blog' Cross Posting admin page.

@mark-tomson,

I see the canonical URL is pointing to the blog post so it works.

However sometimes google still show two results. Here are the reasons:

• Even though you have a canonical URL pointing to the blog post, Google sometimes decides to rank both pages separately based on user behavior, content relevance, or the importance of each page. The forum topic might be seen as a valuable source of discussion or engagement, and thus, it still gets indexed.
• Google treats the canonical tag as a suggestion rather than a strict directive. If the forum page has good engagement, backlinks, or unique elements (like comments or discussions), Google might still display it.
• In cases of cross-posting content (as with your blog post and forum topic), Google might sometimes index both versions if the content is slightly different (due to additional comments or forum metadata). It could be reading both as valuable despite the canonical tag.

We're considering to add noindex meta tag to cross-posted topics so this will 100% stop indexing them. We may add it in upcoming version of the addon.