Is Google ignoring my canonicals?

[HappyJackJr]

Hi,

We have rel=canonical set up on our ecommerce site but Google is still indexing pages that have rel=canonical.

For example,

http://www.britishbraces.co.uk/braces/novelty.html?colour=7883&p=3&size=599

http://www.britishbraces.co.uk/braces/novelty.html?p=4&size=599

http://www.britishbraces.co.uk/braces/children.html?colour=7886&mode=list

These are all indexed but all have rel=canonical implemented. Can anyone explain why this has happened?

[ThomasHarvey]

Hi,

I'm going to ask the obvious question, how long have you had the canonicals?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Sxammv8gsm8J:www.britishbraces.co.uk/braces/novelty.html%3Fcolour%3D7853%26size%3D599&num=1&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=0&vwsrc=1

For example, that was crawled on the 2nd of September, yet if you search the code then you can't see any canonicals. I would personally give it a few weeks to let Google to update.

Tom (yep, the same one from SEO Chat)

[HappyJackJr]

Hey Tom! How are you?!

The canonicals on your example may have had a brief disappearance, however please look at the below exaple where the canonical was implemented but ignored,

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:02443r6Ooc8J:www.britishbraces.co.uk/braces/runner-end/runner-end-trouser-braces-wine-5611.html+&cd=84&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk