Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

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[Anthony_NorthSEO]

Hi Zmbmatt,

Looks like you do have a Canonical URL tag on your page, likely from an SEO extension you're using. It's on line 12 of your index's HTML:

href='http://pcpowerspeed.blogspot.com/' rel='canonical'/>

It points to http://pcpowerspeed.blogspot.com**/ **(notice the trailing slash).

The reason for this is that the version of the URL with the trailing slash and the version of the URL without the trailing slash are technically two distinct URLs, and this tag indicates to search engines that the preferred version is the URL with the trailing slash. This is a common usage of the canonical tag, and is appropriate.

If you add a slash to the end of the target URL when you run the On-Page Optimization report, it should do away with the error.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Thanks,

Anthony