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    • CandymanKen
      CandymanKen last edited by

      Hi all.

      I think I'm a bit confused. When I check my crawl diagnostics its listing lots of warnings under the heading rel-canonical. I am not sure why, since virtually all my pages have the  link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>"  tag. I use it because there are a lot of possible extensions that can appear on the pages as it is an eCommerce site.

      Why would seomoz list this as a warning?

      Thanks

      Ken

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      • rock22
        rock22 last edited by

        Are you sure it's a warning (yellow) and not a notice (blue)?  Notices are just letting you know that they found something that may be of interest to you and not necessarily a problem.

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        • CandymanKen
          CandymanKen last edited by

          It turns out they are notices, not warnings. I didn't really see the difference until you pointed it out.

          Thanks for the info!

          Ken

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          • rock22
            rock22 @CandymanKen last edited by

            Glad I could help!

            Kelli

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