SEOMoz Shows Issue with Rel="canonical" - Not seeing Issue on Actual Pages

[viastudio]

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[Keszi]

Hi Kimberly,

I will just point you out to a previous question of today: http://www.seomoz.org/q/unique-canonical-is-it-a-real-error

I have answered almost the same question there.

First you need to understand why you get the notices from SEO tools for canonicals.

Gr.,

Istvan

P.S. you shouldn't worry, just analyze the data, so your canonicals do not deindex your pages

[UnderRugSwept]

One thing that I noticed is that your doctype is HTML but you are using an XHTML canonical tag.

You have:

whereas in an HTML document, you shouldn't use self-closing tags. It should be:

It's possible SEOmoz is ignoring the tags for this reason.