Can anyone give advice as to the best way to handle the creation of the site map data source for the Joomla tags? I am using SH404SEF and will ask this question there as well. The way I have the site map data source set right now it produces a URL in the html sitemap for that data source in this format:
https://www.ufcinc.com/tag/121 This is for the Joomla tag "invoice scanning." See it on our site map here:
https://www.ufcinc.com/jmap
There are no less than four total variations of the URL's creation for this one single tag, creating a mess for SEO, not that the tag URL is all that critical really, but it is just nice to not have to list a whole bunch of URL's in robots.txt exclusion rules. Here are the four possible format:
1.
https://www.ufcinc.com/tag/121 This is the way it shown in the out of the box sitemap data source wizard for tags.
2.
https://www.ufcinc.com/121
3.
https://www.ufcinc.com/121-invoice-scanning
4.
https://www.ufcinc.com/tag/121-invoice-scanning This would be my preferred version, with #3 a close second. I would then set the canonical URL as this version.
My question is regarding the excellent JSiteMap Pro extension, can the query for this data source be coded in such a way as to produce one of the pretty URL's containing both the tag number and the tag name?
Or, perhaps I need to create a custom SEF extension for SH404SEF? SemRush is not happy with my site audit when it sees three exta URL's for the same item. I am still wrapping my head around the value of the tag function that came in Joomla 3.1 in terms of SEO.
Thanks in advance.