Some Canonical Questions

[lnickel]

Back again peeps!

I have a few questions I'm hoping some SEO/Coding guru's could help out. First, I am using mvlcek's il8n plugins (base, navigation, search).

So I am aware if I want to get rid of the name=generator I can simply call FALSE in the il8n header. Works great eliminating that but what about canonical? It strips that out as well. Don't we need that?

So I have a two questions.

How do we keep the canonical and cut the name generator?
Is it proper to have the ?lang=en on the end of the url? if not how do I cut that?

What are you folks doing?

thanks!
Lance

P.S i did some reading on it hence my question about using the lang sting on the end of the url

http://overit.com/blog/canonical-urls

[shawn_a]

generator meta has nothing to do with canonical urls, so i am not entirely sure what you are asking.

Besides, meta generator was removed as of 3.2.2

This might be a plugin question.

[lnickel]

if i set the header get_il8n_header(FALSE)

It takes out both the

<meta name="generator" content="GetSimple" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/?lang=en" />

It was really a two part question probably more for mvleck

How do I keep the canonical and within that canonical is it proper to have the ?lang-en on the end

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for responding

[shawn_a]

You should ask in the plugins thread. Or post the functions code so we can look at it for you.

[lnickel]

Thanks Shawn! I'll ask in the plugins thread!!

[shawn_a]

I think its just a conditional wrapping it, the core get_header function does the same thing.

If not $full then that whole block containing those tags are not output.

The code would have to be modified in the plugin to add a new argument, or just remove the generator like I did in core.

[lnickel]

Ah i see it in the plugin...the if ($full) I can take out the gen there!!! thank you!