Help with Rel Canonical on Wordpress?

[10JQKAs]

Crawl Diagnostics is showing a lot of Rel Canonical warnings, I've installed Wordpress SEO by Joose De Valk and Home Canonical URL plugins without success. Any ideas?

I'm getting a lot of URL's that I thought I blocked from being indexed, such as author pages, category pages, etc.

I'm also getting stuff like "recessionitis.com/?homeq=recent" and "recessionitis.com/page/2/", those pages are similar to my homepage. I thought those plugins were suppose to automatically clean things up.. anyone use these plugins that have any helpful hints?

[AlanMosley]

Are you talking of SEOMoz Diagnostics, if so you will see that they are notices, not warnings.
It is good to be notified where you have your canonicals as they can be dangerouse if you have put them in the wrong page.
Canonical want stop them being indexed, it just gives the credit to teh page you tel it to.

[10JQKAs]

Right, SEOMoz Diagnostic notices.

So are the notices showing urls that should be seen as Canonical or url's that are seen as Canonical?

[AlanMosley]

It no indication of good or bad use, just a notive,
imaging you did something to generate rele canonicals on 20 pages, later you notive its on 1000 pages, you could have some real problems, so its good to notice this

[10JQKAs]

I see, so the notices are URL's that have the canonical attribute?

I just want to make sure PR isn't passing on to "recessionitis.com/page/2/", "recessionitis.com/?homeq=recent", etc.

[AlanMosley]

Assuming this pages are dupilcates.
then only one will rank, with a canonical you can choose what page that is, if you dont use a canionical then google will choose. if you have too many, then google may see that as bad,