Using del canonical for subpage relating to homepage
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Hi,
I have a subpage that has a Moz-Page Optimization score for a keyword of 98%.
Nevertheless that page is not seen on page one of google. Instead google shows the homepage of the same site which has only an optimization score of around 50%.
Now Moz suggests to implement a del canonical tag.
Should I implement one in the subpage relating to the homepage?
I have never done this and am a little unsure.
What if there are other keywords for which the homepage should be shown? Will the homepage still show up?
Best wishes
Marc
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Hi Dirk,
thanks for your detailed response.
Marc
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Hi,
The Moz suggestion on the canonical is to put a self referencing canonical - not to put a canonical on the subpage to the homepage (or the other way round). Canonicals should only be used to avoid duplicate content - which is I guess not the case with your homepage/subpage.
The fact that Google prefers to show your homepage rather than your subpage is something which isn't really 100% under your control - without the actual site it's nearly impossible why this happens. My guess would be that your homepage probably has a higher authority (more incoming links) which Google could prefer over optimised content. If you browse the q&a you'll notice that you are certainly not the only one in this case;
Dirk
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