Rel Canonical - Could someone please help confirm something?
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Morning Mozzers,
I'm looking at a site (www.zitan.co.uk) and making a few recommendations for SEO, one of the things I've spotted is something weird with rel canonical. It looks (to me) as if they've got almost every single page set with this tag:
rel="canonical" href="http://www.zitan.co.uk" />
I'm 99% certain that this means that every page on the site (that has this tag) is pointing all link juice / authority back to the homepage?
If someone could please check and just confirm that, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
James
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Thanks folks - that's exactly what I was looking for, both much appreciated.
I've dropped their web dev's a quick email now - fingers crossed I get a sensible reply!
Cheers & thanks again
James -
you are 100% correct they have pointed every single one of their pages to their homepage essentially. I look at rel="canonical tell Google what page should have the correct content I have checked your site as requested. Below I've pasted what I found in the source code of their about page. So it should be <link < span="">rel="canonical" href=http://www.zitan.co.uk/aboutus not what you see below </link <>
| "rel="canonical" href="http://www.zitan.co.uk" /> |
| | <title></span>About Zitan<span></title> |"
essentially all you have to do is go through and change the canonical the correct page after this I would go into Google Webmaster resubmit a site map and index with Google.
I hope I was of help you.
Sincerely,
Thomas von Zickell
Blueprint Marketing
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Yes, it looks like they got their canonicals all wrong...
I think google will ignore the canonical tag in this situation. I remember Matt Cutts talking about if you got the canonicals all wrong Google would still index your site.
"What sunk the pirate ship? Canonical issues!"
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