Canonical tags and relative paths
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Hi,
I'm seeing a problem with Roger Bot crawling a clients site. In a campaign I am seeing you say that the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL.
The tag is as follows:-
/~/Standards-and....etc
Google say:- relative paths are recognized as expected with the tag. Also, if you include a <base> link in your document, relative paths will resolve according to the base URL
Is the issue with this, that there is a /~/, that there is no <base> link or just an issue with Roger?
Best regards,
Peter
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Sorry it was a bit late to help.
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Hi Tompt
Yes that's what I had eventually concluded. The developer says this was caused by an upgrade to the cms.
The choice of url relates to the structure of the site the client seems to want, at this stage, anyway.
Thank you for your time and trouble, most appreciated.
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I think the problem is that if you include the /~/ as part of the URL, no page resolves, it just forwards automatically to http://www.lantra.co.uk/. The relative url should be just "/standards-and-qualifications.aspx".
Is there a particular reason you're using relative urls instead of absolute? They seem an odd choice for canonical.
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