Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

[stlastla]

When using the On page report card I get a critical error on Rel Canonical

Im not sure if I have understood this right but I think that my problem is that I own a Norwegian Domain name which is www.danske-båten.no This domain works great in norwegian, but I get problems with english (foreign) browsers. My english domain name is http://www.danske-båten.no. When you buy a domain name with the letter Å you get a non norwegian domain name as well. (dont quite get the tecnical aspect of it)

Så when I publish a page (using wordpress if that means anything) I get this message:

Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

Moderate fix

<dl>

<dt>Canonical URL</dt>

<dd>"http://www.danske-båten.no/ferge-oslo-københavn/"</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>If the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.</dd>

<dd>So What to do to fix this?
</dd>

</dl>

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[stlastla]

Ok, but is there anything I can do about it in any way?

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[stlastla]

If you can do that I would been a huge help to me:)

Maybe I can help you do that and just to clarify, by char set you mean the proper words to match my language? Instead of the letter Å we just use the letter A. (it that is waht you meant)

[KeriMorgret]

Are you still having this problem? If so, I think the best thing is to email help@seomoz.org with your question -- I'm guessing that the foreign characters are part of the problem here, and it's something they should know about if they don't already. Thanks!