Crawlability check
The canonical link points at the page itself
A rel=canonical link exists, is absolute, matches the page and does not point at a redirect or an error.
high severitycrawl.canonical
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Runs just this check in quick mode. The report opens with the evidence and the fix.
Why it matters
The canonical link tells search engines which address is the real one. A wrong canonical can move the ranking of a page to another address.
How to fix it
Set the canonical link to the absolute, final URL of the page, one per page, and make sure it does not point at a redirecting or error address.
The details
- Category
- Crawlability
- Severity of a failure
- high
- Confidence
- high
- Needs a browser
- No
- Check id
- crawl.canonical
References
Free tools that run this check
SEO CheckerFind the technical problems that keep a page out of search results. The checker reads the page the way a search crawler does and lists what to fix first, with the evidence behind every verdict.Indexability CheckerA page can be blocked from the index in four places: the status code, a noindex directive, robots.txt and the canonical link. Check all four at once and see exactly which one is the problem.Canonical CheckerThe canonical link tells search engines which url is the real one when several show the same content. Check that it exists, that it is absolute and that it points at a working page.Meta Tag CheckerSee the title and description a search engine reads, how the result could look, and whether the canonical, robots, viewport and language tags are set correctly.