Question 230 Duplicate Meta Descriptions and Title Tags from Kunena Forum

In the past few weeks I have religiously abided by the laws within the Google Webmaster Tools for HTML suggestions and crawling procedures as I am a newcomer to the web industry. I know nothing about coding but Joomla and Kunena have been great and easy to use.

So, all was going well until I Google Fetchbot'd my Kunena Forum. After a few days, 234 duplicate meta descriptions and title tags appeared in Google's HTML suggestions. This cannot be good for SEO and PR. The reason being is that most of the pages come from my Kunena Discussion Board where everytime a new topic is made it is crawled through 4 different urls:

/fo​rum​/6-​ass​ess​men​t-h​elp​/37​-ge​tti​ng-​the​-li​ttl​e-t​hin​gs-​rig​ht?​fon​tst​yle​=f-​sma​lle​r
/fo​rum​/in​dex​/6-​ass​ess​men​t-h​elp​/37​-ge​tti​ng-​the​-li​ttl​e-t​hin​gs-​rig​ht
/fo​rum​/in​dex​/6-​ass​ess​men​t-h​elp​/37​-ge​tti​ng-​the​-li​ttl​e-t​hin​gs-​rig​ht?​fon​tst​yle​=f-​lar​ger
/in​dex​.ph​p?o​pti​on=​com​_ku​nen​a&f​unc​=vi​ew&​id=​37&​cat​id=​6&I​tem​id=​122


I have read and understood the process for creating canonical urls, however how do I implement them into every single topic that is created on our forum (usually user submitted)?

Has this happened to anyone else? Have I done something wrong by any chance?

Thanks in advance!

From my own research it seems there is no answer to my above question!

I really don't to migrate from Kunena to another forum but this issue is killing my SEO

Add this into kunena.php (frontend) before line 823 (} // end of online) in K1.7.0:

$document->addHeadLink( KunenaRoute::_(), 'canonical', 'rel', '' );

I added the above code and I can now see a canonical ref in the header but the output looks incorrect.

First page of a forum post:

Second page of a forum post:


Also does it matter that every other ref I can find of the rel="canonical" has the url behind it like

Why is has this topic been resurrected? What version of Kunena are you using, yaksushi?

I'm using Kunena 1.7.1, and yes I resurrected from the dead :evil: