Thanks for reported, I will create a ticket in our issue tracker and we will see if possible to adjust this in the next future release.

Hi Josh,

Regarding the canonical link in user's profile page, this is actually the intended behaviour where items inside the profile page e.g. the Basic information (site.com/joshlewis/about), the canonical will point to site.com/joshlewis so that the search engine crawler should always crawl to your main user profile page.

Also, currently we only added the canonical link for user profile page. As for the other pages (groups, events and etc), we will consider adding the canonical links for these pages in the future.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Regarding the canonical link in user's profile page, this is actually the intended behaviour where items inside the profile page e.g. the Basic information (site.com/joshlewis/about), the canonical will point to site.com/joshlewis so that the search engine crawler should always crawl to your main user profile page.

This would theoretically make my basic information uncrawlable due to the crawler being told to go to my profile instead. Same goes for the apps and profile filters. Is this intentional? From the search engine's point of view my profile won't say much about who I am except for the h1 tag and similar metadata. This would theoretically make it more difficult to have better SEO for profiles. Being able to find text that matches my headers/H1 tags is important, especially if it's similar to the search engine query.

Yes, it is intentional to avoid Google reporting of duplicated pages for whatever reasons. This is actually requested by some customers as they do not want Google to also be indexing those other irrelevant views.

I would suggest you post your ideas / suggestions under the feature requests section and try to see if others are looking for similar setup