Home page canonical issues

[FarkyRafiq]

I think I’ve got a canonical  issue with a client’s site that I’m having problems with

I’ve noticed in their analytics that they receive traffic from themselves.

I’ve used ‘ rel canonical’ throughout the site to avoid any dup issues and I have 301’ed every other variation of the home page I can think of.

I don’t have full access to the back end of the host to control any of the iis as it’s an asp site.

They seem to be getting traffic from their site under the URL of,

example.com

I’ve 301 redirected

www.example.com/home.asp

www.example.com/default.asp

www.example.com/index.asp

to www.example.com

And 'rel canonical' the home page to www.example.com  but still seem to be having the same problem any ideas?

Thanks

[Nobody1560986989723]

You're welcome, glad I could help

[FarkyRafiq]

Hi Martin, thanks for your answer I really appreciate your quick reply which has solved the problem for me, I seem to be looking for problems lately!

[Nobody1560986989723]

Thanks for the positive feedback

[RobertFisher]

Nice response Martin. Very clear cut.

[Nobody1560986989723]

I have yet to come across an Analytics campaign where the traffic report doesn't show some traffic from the site we're analysing. The reason is that people visit the home page from the other pages so it's basically an 'internal referral'. What you want to use is the landing page analysis instead, or just use the filters to exclude example.com referrals.

If you're redirecting all variants of the home page to root and your canonical is going to root, then you should be fine.

Check using a site:example.com search in Google and if you only have root and no /default.asp /index.asp etc then it's fine and you don't have an actual canonical problem - which is what I suspect.

I think it's just ensuring you look at the right analytics reports now and don't get confused in the myriad reports it lets you have.