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    4. Hey on some of my report cards its saying im not using rel canonical correctly how do i change this on my site?

    Hey on some of my report cards its saying im not using rel canonical correctly how do i change this on my site?

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    • ClearVisionDesign
      ClearVisionDesign last edited by

      on some of my report cards its saying certain things featured on my services page are actually linking to my blog or something. and its saying im not using rel canonical correctly. can you help me out?

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      • SanketPatel
        SanketPatel last edited by

        Hi,

        Can you share your URL with me ?? i need to see your URL and how you have implement canonical tag.

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        • AdamThompson
          AdamThompson last edited by

          If you need the official Google documentation, it is here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

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          • ClearVisionDesign
            ClearVisionDesign @SanketPatel last edited by

            www.clearvisiondesign.co is our website. and in our services page there are certain services that have the tag rel=canonicalwww.clearvisondesign.co/portfolio/ or something. and we need them to link to our services not our portfolio. we are using wordpress as our cms

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            • AdamThompson
              AdamThompson @ClearVisionDesign last edited by

              I do see that your homepage has a canonical to this page, which means you're telling Google to index http://www.clearvisiondesign.co/blog/ instead of http://www.clearvisiondesign.co/

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              • ClearVisionDesign
                ClearVisionDesign @ClearVisionDesign last edited by

                so im telling google to index my blog and not my homepage? is fixing it as easy as going into my cms and just taking out the tag? im pretty new to some aspects of seo so im having a hard time understanding certain things. also. why would i have the canonical tag being used in my page at all? i didnt put it there.

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                • AdamThompson
                  AdamThompson @ClearVisionDesign last edited by

                  "so im telling google to index my blog and not my homepage?"

                  Yes, although your blog shows the same content as the homepage for me.

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                  • ClearVisionDesign
                    ClearVisionDesign @ClearVisionDesign last edited by

                    thank you for checking everything out for me i appreciate it.

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