Rel Canonical - Wordpress

[SaborStyle]

How do you fix the rel canonical issue on a wordpress site?  Is there a quick fix?   I have a few notices on my site and am a little confused.

Thanks,

Jared

[seo-wanna-bs]

Yoast SEO offers support for Canonical URL's. it's a fantastic plugin and it's free too.

[seo-wanna-bs]

Actually, when you say the Canonical problem. What do you mean? What is the problem?

[anthonydnelson]

More details would be very appreciated, but like Paul said, most likely it's an issue that can be easily fixed by installing Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin.

[SaborStyle]

Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical.

It is a crawl notice on my campaign.  It is happening on about 13 pages?  I have SEO Ultimate and have the Canonicalizer options checked, but still receive the error.  I don't want to be punished for duplicate content, but with wordpress that seems pretty hard.  I guess I need some direction on best practices for removing duplicate content also.

There are blog posts which hold the original good content, but then the blog "page" that pulls in all the blog posts and displays them on one screen.  Also on the front page I am pulling in the new posts and showing an excerpt or a 200~ character limit excerpt.  Already there is 3 copies of the same content.  I am sure their is more if i looked around.

I guess that is what I mean.  1) Clear up the issue on my crawl diagnostics with SEOmoz.  2) Get this figured out so I can create new content in the future without it happening again

Thanks

[anthonydnelson]

It sounds like you might need to use the noindex, follow tag for some sections of your website. Consider blocking the search engines from ranking sections such as author posts, tags, date and date archives.

Proceed with caution when doing this. You don't want to restrict all indexation of your site. Without knowing more details of what is actually happening, this is the best information I can give you.

[SaborStyle]

Alright I can try that.  Is there a web resource that you or anyone recommends that talks specifically about this issue in depth?  Specifically even wordpress since it seems alot of sites use wordpress now.

I use Swanson Vitamins by the way!

Jared

[anthonydnelson]

A Swanson customer! Pleased to meet you, even if you are 'the masked man' for now. Again, I can't recommend that Yoast SEO plug-in linked above enough. It outlines all of the options above and all you need to do to block indexing is check a simple box.

Take a look at the Wordpress SEO guide, specifically at the section I just linked to.

[SoFlaWeb]

Hi all,

I see this is an old post, but I figured I would search before posting something new.

I am having a similar issue with a site we just launched a few weeks ago.

We cleared out the few errors we had at launch and are now working on the warnings and notices that SEOmoz is reporting.

Specifically the REL Canonical notices.

We are using Yoast SEO plugin and when I view the source of my page, I see the tag.

Is there something else that could be causing SEOmoz to show this as a notice when it really is not?

Thanks,

--Steven

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Steven,

A notice is just that -- it's a notice that "hey, this is here, make sure you want it here" and it's not a warning. Feel free to ignore it if it's set up the way you want it to.

[Agentmorris]

I have this too with SEO ultimate. Using the On page grader it tells me that I need to use only one canonical URL tag.

SEO ultimate shows that its all there but the report saying there is a problem. I have also disabled some author achiving. Any thoughts?

Canonicalizer

| Canonical URL Generation |

<fieldset> <label for="link_rel_canonical">Generate meta tags</label>
<label for="http_link_rel_canonical">Send rel="canonical" HTTP headers</label></fieldset>

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| Canonical URL Scheme |

<fieldset> <label class="first current-setting" for="canonical_url_scheme_">Use http:// or https:// depending on how the visitor accessed the page</label> <label for="canonical_url_scheme_http">Make all canonical URLs begin with http://</label> <label for="canonical_url_scheme_https">Make all canonical URLs begin with https://</label></fieldset>

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| Automated 301 Redirects |

<fieldset> <label for="remove_nonexistent_pagination">Redirect requests for nonexistent pagination</label></fieldset>

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