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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

I have a PPC landing page with

I'm getting a B grade on  the On-Page Report Card.

Can I just ignore that, it says its a "Critical Factor"

Thanks

Mike

Crawl status

<dd>Status Code: 200
meta-robots: noindex,nofollowall
meta-refresh: None
X-Robots: None</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>Pages that can't be crawled or indexed have no opportunity to rank in the results. Before tweaking keyword targeting or leveraging other optimization techniques, it's essential to make sure this page is accessible.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>Ensure the URL returns the HTTP code 200 and is not blocked with robots.txt, meta robots or x-robots protocol (and does not meta refresh to another URL)</dd>