Ignore Moz Notices?
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Hi All,
I read an old post (2011) about ignoring rel canonical notices from Moz. I wondered why they can be ignored? The thing is, it's showing a bunch of rel canonical errors for my pages but I know I have the tag right. At the risk of being offensive.. can the notices be ignored because the Moz data is erroneous? I'm not sure what to make of this.
Thanks!
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I'm getting warnings for too many on page links and rel canonical notices for pages such as:
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/android-os/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/android-vpn/11510
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/android-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/bbc-iplayer-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/bbc-iplayer-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/credit-card-theft-2/11510
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/credit-card-theft-2/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/cybercrime/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/cybercrime/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/cybercriminals/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/cybercriminals/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/expressvpn-2/11510
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/expressvpn-2/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/facebook-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/facebook-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/faceparty-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/faceparty-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/fast-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/fast-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/hacker-botnet/11510
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/hacker-botnet/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/hide-ip/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/hide-ip/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/hulu-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/hulu-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/identity-theft-2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/identity-theft-2/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/internet-freedom-2/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/internet-freedom-2/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/internet-privacy-2/11310
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/internet-privacy-2/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/internet-security/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/internet-security/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/ios-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/ios-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/itv-player-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/itv-player-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/linux-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/linux-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/mac-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/mac-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/netflix-vpn/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/netflix-vpn/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/nsa-snooping/11610
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/nsa-snooping/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/online-data-security/11510
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/online-data-security/page/2/11410
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http://vpnexpress.net/%25%25term_title%25%25/online-financial-theft/1121
I can't make sense of it...
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Sorry but I don't fully understand the issues you have.
Can you please give more details or give some examples?
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Hi Sorina,
Thanks for the info. The rel canonical settings are fine though. And I'm still getting a ton of warnings for %%term_title%%. Only the original post is set for index, follow. Any ideas?
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The Moz data is not erroneous.
But Moz can't know if your rel canonical setting are OK or not, because these settings depend on your own website particularities.You shouldn't ignore these notices, what you should do is check them, and when the rel canonical URL doesn't match the actual URL of the page verify that the setting is correct, that you don't want the actual URL to rank but instead you want the canonical URL to rank because the actual page is duplicate content of the canonical page.
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