Fix canonical meta data

[rfultz]

Summary

What we're after:

Fix our canonical url links to improve accuracy and search engine crawling, and clean up site reports.

<link rel="canonical"> tags tell search engines the preferred/single URLs for pages. For our use, it would be removing query params so all the various …?var=val&var=val&var=val urls would be seen (by search engines) as the URL before the ?, i.e. the page path.

/data/* should not show its canonical page as /

Related issues

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Completion criteria

Our <link rel="canonical"> look more like individual URLs instead of simply <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.fec.gov/"> site-wide.

Tech steps or considerations (optional)

• Google: What is canonicalization?
• Are there pages where we'd want a canonical href to continue past the page path?
• Are there pages that we'd like to assign special, one-off canonical href values?
• Should we remove CANONICAL_BASE from our various global/window front-end values? i.e. if it's not being used, is there any reason to keep it?

Future work

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