Canonical

[SEOJunkie67]

http://www.providenceelectricnc.com/monroe-electrician-nc

Shows great in on Page Report Card for

• Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

• No More Than One Canonical URL Tag

Then POW

Canonical URL Tag Usage ....           it says there is none ....?? HUH ?

Searched forum but it is not discussed . Thanks !

[brandonjschwartz]

I'm not used to seeing the canonical tag in the main content section? I usually have seen (and placed it) in the header near the scripts.

Am I wrong on this guys? Maybe that's why there's an error on the report card.

[SEOJunkie67]

This is a Joomla! site so I have one index PHP that is my template . Whatever I put there appears on every page .

I have another page where instead of using the insert image HTML , I created it  with a background image using css , this works fine for all three factors  . On the page in question I used insert image and a URL . The page with the image insert HTML and alt image attribute is the page I am having a problem with . Trying to use the image alt attribute at least once on the page is what caused the canonical to be funky in the tool . I have a suspicion that Google will see the canonical tag regardless . I'm sure that I can get a module or plug-in to do this for me and put it in the header tag that is necessary . But that requires me to create a module for each page and I would prefer to simply insert a line of code . Thanks so much !

[Dr-Pete]

Did you make a change? I'm seeing the canonical tag in the header and not in the content/body (as Boomajoom mentioned). In my experiments, Google won't honor a canonical tag in the body.

I do see that the tag is reversed a bit, with the "href" attribute first and "rel" second. Although Google will probably honor this, I think it might be confusing our system, which can be a bit more literal.