Canonical Question
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Can someone please help me with a question, I am learning about Canonical URls at the moment and have had some errors come up, it is saying ```This page has multiple rel=canonical tags.Line 9 Best Practice[](http://try.powermapper.com/Reports/89db420a-2cf2-46dc-bae4-543efbefc241/report/res/2.view.htm#)Search engine behavior is unpredictable when a page has multiple canonical tags. <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.finalduties.co.uk/" /><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Final Duties – Low cost probate RSS Feed" href="http://www.finalduties.co.uk/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Final Duties – Low cost probate Atom Feed" href="http://www.finalduties.co.uk/feed/atom/" /><link rel="pingback" href="http://www.finalduties.co.uk/xmlrpc.php" />That canonical link to Feed? should that be there, I know the Plugin has done this but I am lost to what should be there, I have no duplicate pages as far as I am aware than needs a canonical URL ??Thanks ``` > -
That would indeed fix the issue. Although i'd check your internal pages as well to make sure the plugin that is implementing the canonical tag on line 9 is doing it properly sitewide
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Hi Sebastian,
So if I just uncheck the Tick box for <a title="Click for Help!">Canonical URLs: in the all in one settings this should sort out this problem? currently ticked as u can see below?</a>
thanks for helping, appreciate it.
| <a title="Click for Help!">Canonical URLs:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Rewrite Titles:</a> | |
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Hi Sebastian,
So if I just uncheck the Tick box for <a title="Click for Help!">Canonical URLs: in the all in one settings this should sort out this problem? currently ticked as u can see below?</a>
thanks for helping, appreciate it.
| <a title="Click for Help!">Canonical URLs:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Rewrite Titles:</a> | |
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Hi Chris,
Taking a look at your source code you do have two seperate instances on the "canonical" tag.
One on line 9 -
One on line 28 -The second one is being added by All in One SEO, you could disable the canonical option within AIO and you won't have this issue anymore.
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