Hi all! We have a client who publishes scholarly research as a highly regarded non-profit. Their Publications aren't being indexed in Google Scholar 50% of the time and when they are, Google is pulling random stuff from a PDF vs. from the html page. Any advice on best practices is enormously appreciated

Hi Moz Community,

I have a client using relative links for their canonicals (vs. absolute)

Google appears to be following this just fine, but bing, etc. are still sending organic traffic to the non-canonical links.

It's a drupal setup.

Anyone have advice?  Should I recommend that all canonical links be absolute?  They are strapped for resources, so this would be a PITA if it won't make a difference.

Thanks

Thank you so much.  This is so helpful.

thanks, I agree.  I appreciate your help.