2 canonical tags on the same page

[shilohstreet]

When using the 'on-page optimizer' tool, I continue to get the same recommendation on every page to only use 1 canonical tag on the page.

I'm not sure why there are 2 tags on each page in the first place so I don't know how to remove the one that's not needed.  Our site is on a WP blog and a sample page to view the source code would be: http://www.shilohstreet.com/blog/is-flipping-houses-smart-real-estate-investing.html

Does anyone know why this is happening, how to fix it and/or if I should even be concerned with it?

Thanks!

[EricaMcGillivray]

Because you're using Wordpress CMS, what's probably happening is that Wordpress is putting in the canonical tag and then one of your plug-ins is also putting in a canonical tag. My guess that the plug-in would be whatever one you're using for SEO on the site. Apparently, this is a problem with (or has been one) with the Platinum SEO plug-in. (I prefer All-in-One-SEO for my own sites, which don't have this issue.)

Before you start deleting any code, I would make sure that all your plug-ins are updated to the latest version, Wordpress started adding the canonical tag at version 2.9.0, so that was a few rounds ago and most SEO plug-ins would've removed that part of the code from their plug-ins now.

[shilohstreet]

Thanks Erica!

We use Platinum SEO so I bet that's what's causing the 2 canonical tags (all plugins are up to date).

We'll switch to All-in-One SEO and hopefully that will make the difference.  But to help with the transfer of data from our current seo plugin to this new one, do you know of a plugin that would help rather than doing it manually?

Thanks again!

[EricaMcGillivray]

I don't know of a plug-in. Sorry! The only way I've mass transfered data was using SQL queries.

[shilohstreet]

No problem.  We used SEO Transporter and moved everything to All-in-One SEO...... that did the trick!  Thanks Erica!