Conflicting Canonical Tag in On-Page Report
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I'm going through my site with the "One-Page report card for some PPC landing pages.
If I have this canonical tag on my page :
I get a Fail in the "Critical Factors Section here:
Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical
but a Pass in the Optional Factors here:
Canonical URL Tag Usage
If I take the canonical link out, the opposite happens,
what am I missing? Is the format wrong?
Thanks
Michael
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If you are getting a Fail in Critical factors that means the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL then the one you are trying to grade/optimize.
Are you looking at the report card of the page http://www.hometheatercooling.com/Audio-Fan.html?
To be more clear, the Pass in optional Factors means that yes, you use a canonical tag, the Fail in Critical factors means your canonical tag doesn't correspond to your page url.
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