Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

[lbecarelli]

Hello,

in on page report card ,

for a kyeword: armadi portafucili blindati

URL: http://www.bighunter.net/shop/searchresult.seam?codiceSettoreSel=CACCIA&codiceCategoriaSel=Armadi Blindati&codiceSottoCategoriaSel=Linea Legno DeLuxe&codiceMarcaSel=SILMEC

i have a Critical Factor that don't undestand.

It 's not ok "appropiate Use of Rel Canoncal, but in my page i have

<link href="http://www.bighunter.net/shop/searchresult.seam?codiceSettoreSel=CACCIA&codiceCategoriaSel=Armadi Blindati&codiceSottoCategoriaSel=Linea Legno DeLuxe&codiceMarcaSel=SILMEC" rel="canonical">

and the link is the same of the url .

I don't undestand where is the problem . Who can help me?

Best Regards

Luca

[lbecarelli]

yes, what Peter  said is ok.

Sorry if I have not yet responded but i have modified my url with replace space with %20 and i have verified that that is the solution.

[Dr-Pete]

Certain characters, like spaces, should generally be encoded in the URL. It's generally just a few characters, and honestly those characters would be better off not in your URLs.

If your site is creating encoded URLs, though, then you should use those URLs everywhere - internal links, canonical tags, etc. There's no real trick to it - it's just that you should use the same URL format everywhere.

[douglala]

I have the same issue. Exactly howdo you use the URL-encoded format?

[Dr-Pete]

Use the URL-encoded format (with "%20" in place of spaces) for your canonical tag, since that really is the canonical version of the URL. It's probably not a huge issue, but that should be a bit safer and more consistent.