Suggestion for Improving the Crawl Report on Canonicals

[CleverPhD]

This came up in the answer to a question I gave here

http://moz.com/community/q/canonicals-in-crawling-reports#reply_222623

Wanted to post here to put it in as a suggestion on how to improve the Moz Crawl reports

Currently, the report shows FALSE if there is no canonical link on a page and TRUE if there is.  IF you get a TRUE response, this shows up as a warning in your report.

I currently use Canonical to Self on almost all my pages to help with some indexing issues.  I currently use the EXACT function in excel to create a formula to see if my canonical link matches the URL of the page (as this is what I want it to do).  I can then know that the canonical is implemented properly, or if I need to manually check pages to make sure the canonical that points to another page is correct.

I would like to suggest that the Moz crawl tool does this.  It can show FALSE is the canonical is missing, TRUE if the canonical is present and SELF if the canonical points to the URL of the page it is on.  I think for the most part this would be much more actionable information.  I would even suggest that TRUE would need to be more of a high priority alert, and SELF can't do any damage, so I would leave that info in the CSV but not have that as a warning in the web interface.

Thanks for listening!

[CommT]

Totally agree with you, great points!