Categories not shown to web spiders on parent category pages

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Problem: Categories not shown to web spiders on parent category pages

Steps to replicate:
1 Please visit any parent category page lets say “Extensibility”
2 You an see category are there with each topics

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3. Now disable javascript, you will see categories are not there along with each topics
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@techapj can you verify this is fixed for 1.4? I agree parent category should be linked for Google as well at least at the breadcrumb at the top of this page.

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Fixed via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1e6bf67b5bc8078ec2db47fe24560198c1b0280f

@sam fixed this via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c1a18f91efa06d16cbc50afd499a11df7c36deb5

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