Canonical Tag on Blog - Roger says it's incorrect?
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Hi
I have just released a post on my blog and I wanted to check my primary keyword for the post to make sure the page scores well. However when I did the page report it showed the Canonical Rel tag was incorrect.
example of link
the blog is http://www.example.com/Blog/post-comment/
The Canonical tag is below
What am I doing wrong, as it looks correct to me?
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Thanks Dr Peter this is all making good sense to me,.
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In some cases, we return a warning if the canonical doesn't match the display URL. I realize this can be confusing, because often canonicals don't match the page, by necessity. It's essentially just a heads up, in that case, to make sure no one does anything dangerous. There are two canonical messages, though - one is an error or warning, and one is just a notice. I'm not sure which one you're seeing.
As Sean said, though, I'm not seeing any obvious issues with the canonical tag on your blog. This may just be a hyperactive warning on our part.
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That was the correct one, thanks for looking over it...
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That was the correct one, thanks for looking over it...
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Hi
I have checked the canonical link on your blog, on the duplicate content post (I assume this is he one)
It looks like
This looks good to me.
Is it possible the error report was looking at one of the examples in your text, the 5th and 8th use of the word canonical in the article could have confused the checker.
Let me know if I am checking the wrong information or if you would like me to look at anything else
Sean
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Sorry I was rushing... it looks like the below.
<link href="http://www.example.co.uk/Blog/duplicate-content-seo-basics/" rel="canonical">
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Sorry I was rushing... it looks like the below.
<link href="http://www.example.co.uk/Blog/duplicate-content-seo-basics/" rel="canonical">
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Hi
Below is an example of a canonical tag on the seomoz blog, the differences I can see from yours are
rel="canonical" href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/my-favorite-way-to-get-links-and-social-shares-whiteboard-friday" />
The href= between "canonical" and "http://www."
the trailing / also has a space after the "
I hope this helps
Sean
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