Rel Canonical help
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Is it possible to confirm this to me please?
My understanding of the rel canonical tag was to tell google of duplicate content? so for instance
product 1
www.ourdomain.co.uk/products/category/subcategory/theproduct1Product 1a
www.ourdomain.co.uk/products/category/subcategory/theproduct1a same content just a different colour would be rel canonical'd to Product 1 as thats the main product, is my understanding correct?Now here is what I have discovered.
www.ourdomain.co.uk/products/category/subcategory/theproduct1 has a rel canonical tag that reverts back to
www.ourdomain.co.uk/products/ which isn't optimized as such its just a generic catalog page.
This is inccorect and google will dismiss the actial product and revert to the generic catalog page?
any help would be great.
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Thank you, and this rel canonical url is just a re-divert to the home page. web designers have messed up here. thank you for clarification on my thoughts
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Hello,
You're correct. www.ourdomain.co.uk/products/category/subcategory/theproduct1 shouldn't have a rel=canonical pointing to /products. You can either remove the tag altogether or change the tag to point to itself:
You currently have a tag pointing towards /products, which means it's likely Google will disregard the page you want to rank. Sometimes, if Google thinks you've made an error, they'll ignore the rel=canonical. But it's better to be safe than sorry, so remove/amend it.
Cheers,
Lewis
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