All of my affiliate sites held rankings as well as my authority sites. From what I've seen what's worked is:

• Continuously publishing content
• Putting the blog page first (continuously updated)
• Ensuring that Google is aware of my site in Google Webmaster Tools
• So basically building an affiliate site as a "standard" authority site

So no drop in rankings, actually the exact opposite.

Hi Matthew - not that I saw. It appears to be a feature built in and non-configurable. Lot's of indexation options but nothing for canonicals.

Hi everyone,

I'm driving myself insane trying to figure this one out and am hoping someone has more technical chops than I do. Here's the situation...

I'm getting duplicate canonical tags on my pages and posts, one is inside of the WordPress SEO (plugin) commented section, and the other is elsewhere in the header. I am running the latest version of WordPress 3.1.3 and the Genesis framework.

After doing some testing and adding the following filters to my functions.php:

<code>remove_action('wp_head', 'genesis_canonical');
remove_action('wp_head', 'rel_canonical');</code>

... what I get is this:

With the plugin active + NO "remove action" - duplicate canonical tags
With the plugin disabled + NO "remove action" - a single canonical tag
With the plugin disabled + A "remove action" - no canonical tag

I have tried using only one of these remove_actions at a time, and then combining them both. Regardless, as long as I have the plugin active I get duplicate canonical tags.

Is this a bug in the plugin, perhaps somehow enabling the canonical functionality of WordPress?

Thanks for your help everyone.

• Robert Dempsey

All of my affiliate sites held rankings as well as my authority sites. From what I've seen what's worked is:

• Continuously publishing content
• Putting the blog page first (continuously updated)
• Ensuring that Google is aware of my site in Google Webmaster Tools
• So basically building an affiliate site as a "standard" authority site

So no drop in rankings, actually the exact opposite.