Canonical tag not working

[ctpolarbears]

I have a weebly site and I put the canonical tag in the header code but the moz crawler still says that I'm missing the canonical tag. Any tips?

[Chris.Menke]

Are you sure Moz has re-crawled the page since you added the tag?

Verify the tag is actually there by right clicking on your page and selecting to view source. If it's there, Google will eventually see it.

[ctpolarbears]

Yes, Moz has re-crawled the page several times. My website is ctpolarbears.com; I viewed the page source and it looks like it's there, just not sure if it's in the correct spot?  Thank you for your help.

[CraigBradford]

Hi,

This looks like a copy paste error to me. If you look at the cource code of your site compared to another site with a canonical that you know works, you'll see that the quotes around the canonical and the URL are blue. They should be a different colour. If you look at the image I've shared, you'll see the other links in the source code have different colours for the quotation marks.

My guess is you pasted this from a rich formatting document like MS word or something or the quotes are the wrong order. To fix it, open up a plain text editor like the basic notepad and write it out again. Then add it to the site without formatting. This should fix it.

If you want to double check the HTML, I recommend downloading a free text editor like Visual Studio Code which makes it a bit easier to see the formatting is correct as you're writing HTML. See the attached image as an example.

Let me know if this solves your problem.

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[ctpolarbears]

Wow, thank you so much. This solved my issue!!

Are you familiar with canonical tags on Weebly blog pages? Any idea how to sort that out? I tried adding custom HTML, but it appears that didn't work. Appreciate your help!

[CraigBradford]

I'm glad that worked. I'm not familiar with Weebly, but I'm happy to take a look if you want to send me some examples.