Are To Many Rel Canonical Links A Bad Thing?

[Mike.Bean]

Are To Many Rel Canonical Links A Bad Thing?

I had "twin" domains so I redirected my  .com to www..com and now I have a lot of Rel Canonical Links.

[AJPro]

Hi!

In your case  you should do a redirect (301) of all non-www to the www-version of your site. You don't need canonicals for this. It is better to skip the non-www entirely (or other way around). Just decide what version to go with. Old link-juice will follow the redirect to the new page.

Use canonicals if you have a bunch of simular pages you would like to to merge into one. Like if you have two pages with basically the same content.

Check your site and what headers it puts out with this tool:  http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php Response of non-www should be 301, very important!

Btw, a lot of canonicals are not bad if they are used wisely

[Mike.Bean]

Thank you!