Issue: Rel Canonical
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My SEO Report shows issues: Rel Canonical I have a wordpress website each page has its content but I'm getting errors from my SEOMOZ report. I instaledl the yoast plug in to fix the issue but I'm still getting 29 errors.
Wordpress 3.4.1
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Oops under Crawl Notices Found
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Check the page source and CTRL+F and search "canonical"
If the Yoast fixed it then I wouldn't worry about it. Be worried if you find more than 1 canonical element.
Is the "Errors" actually listed under
Crawl Errors Found
or
Crawl Notices Found
???
If you implemented the plugin and changes after your last crawl, I would wait until SEOMoz re crawls your site and makes a fresh report. If you click the number of errors, warnings or notices found with canonical, it will bring you to a page where it finds it. if you hover over the "Tag value" it will give you the true canonical path!
It could also be a theme problem! You may have to edit your page / post templates and any others that are effected.
Hope this helps!
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