Rel=canonical Query

[DFD2012]

Hello Everyone,

We have just launched our new ecommerce site for flooring in the UK.

I have run through the first crawl and there are 549 instances of rel=canonical including the homepage?

Is this a major issue in any way, i have never had to tackle it before and i would appreciate any advice that could be offered on the subject.

Many Thanks

Andrew

[Maximise]

Hi Andrew,

Are you referring to the rel=canonical under the notices section? If so then this is not a problem, it's just showing that there are canonical tags implemented for these pages. You don't need to change anything.

[DFD2012]

Many Thanks for your help Maximise,

Yes that is what i was referring to.

That puts my mind at ease a bit, I'm now going to crack on resolving the 75 critical errors and silly mistakes which have also been found, duplicate page titles etc although some of these are in the basket area, are they worth changing?

Kind Regards

Andrew

[Maximise]

No problem Andrew.

It depends where in the basket area they are. Keep in mind that the search engines won't submit forms or get into any secure areas so those pages would not be worth changing.

[NakulGoyal]

Andrew

I would essentially suggest to use the crawl report from SEOMoz as a starting point and see which ones translate into real issues and then the effort/reward/prioritize based on time and resources available as well as the importance of that change.

@Maximise is right-on, you can ignore the canonical "warnings". They are more like an FYI.