Conflicting Canonical Tag in On-Page Report

[mjrinvent]

I'm going through my site with the "One-Page report card for some PPC landing pages.

If I have this canonical tag on my page :

I get a Fail in the "Critical Factors Section here:

Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

but a Pass in the Optional Factors here:

Canonical URL Tag Usage

If I take the canonical link out, the opposite happens,

what am I missing? Is the format wrong?

Thanks

Michael

[SorinaDascalu]

If you are getting a Fail in Critical factors that means the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL then the one you are trying to grade/optimize.

Are you looking at the report card of the page http://www.hometheatercooling.com/Audio-Fan.html?

To be more clear, the Pass in optional Factors means that yes, you use a canonical tag, the Fail in Critical factors means your canonical tag doesn't correspond to your page url.