Homepage has canonical tag pointing to innerpage

[nerdieb]

Hi,

I'm stuck! This e-commerce site which I'm currently working on has an unusual problem.

So the homepage has a canonical tag pointing to one of its category pages.

Is this okay SEO-wise? Based on what I understand, the homepage is the most important page in a site. And if there is a mirror duplication, it would be better to canonicalise the inner page to the homepage rather than in reverse.

Looking forward to getting some answers.

Cheers!

[donsilvernail]

Hi Nirdieb,

I would remove the canonical tag to the inner page. This was obviously a mistake. The home page is the most important page. Is that inner page a duplicate of the home page? I would think not.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

[nerdieb]

Hi Don,

Thank you for your response. The homepage and inner page are an exact duplicate (mirror).

Cheers!