Crawl Diagnostics - Canonical Question
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On one of my sites I have 61 notices for Rel Canonical. Is it bad to have these or is this just something that's informative?
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These are just notices. As long as things look correct to you (you're not doing a rel canonical to the home page for each of your internal pages) things are good and you can happily ignore that.
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Can please show us some real life examples so that we can come up with probable solutions
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