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    • AshJez
      AshJez last edited by

      Hello all.

      Could someone have a look at my page here www.ashley-wedding-cars.co.uk here and tell me why I have a canonical problem.

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      • myloseo
        myloseo last edited by

        i can't see a probleem, why do you think you have one?

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        • TimKelsey
          TimKelsey last edited by

          One problem is that the www and non-www versions of your domain resolve separately. As a best practice, you should pick one to be your primary domain and redirect the other to it. Otherwise, you can end up with duplicate content issues.

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          • Yanbo
            Yanbo @TimKelsey last edited by

            I would just like to add that beside above problem, there is also an issue with trailing slashes

            http://www.ashley-wedding-cars.co.uk//

            http://www.ashley-wedding-cars.co.uk

            Resolve to the same thing, You should add redirect from // version to non-slash version

            Kind regards

            Bojan

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            • mediabase
              mediabase last edited by

              Hi AshJez , I had visited your website. By observing the website I came to conclude that your website has canonical problem. Firstly I want to tell you about what is Canonical problem.   Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. In brief it is  www vs. non-www.

              For more information please refer to this:

              http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

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              • Dr-Pete
                Dr-Pete last edited by

                It looks like you're 301-redirecting you're root site to the "/index.php" version of the page. The problem is that you're linking to the root "/" in the navigation and most of your inbound links are probably to the root. So, you're sending a mixed message about which version is actually canonical. I would stick to the root, personally.

                The non-www vs. www issue is also in play, but I think it's a secondary problem.

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