Using Canonical URLs option in Platinum SEO for Wordpress

[pressingtheissue]

SEOMOZ says that my site has 150 <a title="Click for Help!">Canonical URLs and lists that as a potential problem.  It's a check box in the settings for Platinum SEO and here is the description it provides:</a>

<a title="Click for Help!">Choose this option to set up canonical URLs for your Home page, Single Post, Category and Tag Pages.</a>

I have the option engaged. So I was trying to figure out the best thing to do.  I have already instructed it to automatically make 301 redirects for any permalink changes and have instructed it to "noindex" tag archives,rss comment feeds, and rss feeds.

I've only been doing this for about a year and am really confused right now.  After reading most of your posts about the subject I have a much better understanding, but still very confused.

Help..Please...

[mad2k]

It looks like you did a big mess in your blog, SeoMOZ says "Using rel=canonical suggests to search engines which URL should be seen as canonical." and nothing more.

How to use - description is in On-Page Report Card in Critical Factors section.

"ExplanationIf 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."

Take Care, M.