fix(seo): declare canonical URLs for unversioned and untranslated page copies - #2432
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This is so that if none of the available languages match the user's language, it falls back to English.
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Technically, these pages contain the same content, just for i18n purposes. Because of that, we keep a canonical pointing to the English page so Google can index it more effectively.
It would also be good to exclude them from the sitemap, but I'd consider that a future improvement since I haven't found a clean way to do it yet.
Also, the reason I chose the unversioned URLs to point to the latest version (v5) is that Google was already treating the v5 URLs as the canonical ones.
By the way, I have access to Google Search Console, so I can actually verify this.