Is the seomoz on-page factor :Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical working properly?

[CurtCarroll]

I have a word press site with a rel canonical plug in. The rel="canonical" href= is there and the url in there works and goes to the actual page.So why does the seomoz keep giving the warning: Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

[CurtCarroll]

This sound like the same issue. It has ran through 2 weeks now and the bots not picked it up. Maybe i will send a support ticket as well.

Thanks.

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi Curt

I'm not sure if my situation is the same as yours but I did have an issue last week where a page was  being reported on SEMoz on page report card as not having appropriate use of Canonical (when i knew it did have).  I submitted a support ticket and the reply was that they were not getting the same result.  I ran the report again to check and the report was now saying it was being used approriately.

As a result i would suggest running the report again since maybe theres occasionally temporary glitches/bug with the report card.

All Best

Dan

[NakulGoyal]

You are right on being concerned about it. It's not an issue. The tool is making sure you are aware that there's a canonical tag. That's why it's a warning, not an error, specially because this is a very very important directive and something that the bots see, not the user's and can also sometimes cause hacks and other malicious attempts.

Again, there's nothing wrong with it. No need to worry.