Canonical
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http://www.providenceelectricnc.com/monroe-electrician-nc
Shows great in on Page Report Card for
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Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical
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No More Than One Canonical URL Tag
Then POW
Canonical URL Tag Usage .... it says there is none ....?? HUH ?
Searched forum but it is not discussed . Thanks !
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Did you make a change? I'm seeing the canonical tag in the header and not in the content/body (as Boomajoom mentioned). In my experiments, Google won't honor a canonical tag in the body.
I do see that the tag is reversed a bit, with the "href" attribute first and "rel" second. Although Google will probably honor this, I think it might be confusing our system, which can be a bit more literal.
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This is a Joomla! site so I have one index PHP that is my template . Whatever I put there appears on every page .
I have another page where instead of using the insert image HTML , I created it with a background image using css , this works fine for all three factors . On the page in question I used insert image and a URL . The page with the image insert HTML and alt image attribute is the page I am having a problem with . Trying to use the image alt attribute at least once on the page is what caused the canonical to be funky in the tool . I have a suspicion that Google will see the canonical tag regardless . I'm sure that I can get a module or plug-in to do this for me and put it in the header tag that is necessary . But that requires me to create a module for each page and I would prefer to simply insert a line of code . Thanks so much !
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I'm not used to seeing the canonical tag in the main content section? I usually have seen (and placed it) in the header near the scripts.
Am I wrong on this guys? Maybe that's why there's an error on the report card.
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