Can someone explain the attached on page error message?

[KempRugeLawGroup]

Two weeks ago, I took down our mobile site and switched to one on dudamobile. However, for some reason, I keep getting this error/improvement message on my on page report. I do not see how I can have a cannocial problem with a page that is no longer there. Can someone explain that and what I can do about it?

Thanks!

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[Kara.Wallace]

It appears that your problem is that you have 2 canonical tags. One referencing the desktop site and one referencing the mobile site.

Remove the /mobile/clearwater/bankruptcy-clearwater-lawyer-attorney.html tag from that page and you "should" be good to go.

Hope this helps,

Mike

[jesse-landry]

So I'm not sure how dudamobile works in this regard (although I am currently developing a site through their service so this is relevant to my interests) but I do know how canonical tags work.. In looking at the page in question I'm seeing two different canonical tags. One points to the desktop page and the other points to the mobile page. This is a mistake and will prevent either page from being indexed, just as this warning from dudamobile reads. (*PROPS to dudamobile for catching these types of things!)

I can't see the source for your mobile page as it automatically redirects me to the desktop version when I try to access it but basically you want that one to canonical to the desktop site and the desktop site to canonical to itself (or nothing, really.)

But by no means should you canonical the desktop version to the duplicated mobile version of the same page and vice versa. This will cause neither page to be listed in SERPs.

Hope this helps!

[jesse-landry]

Whoops sorry Mike ninja'd me so you have two of the same answers but at least you know the answer is correct this way!

haha

[Kara.Wallace]