Why am I getting rel= canonical?
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I'm getting 14 rel=canonical tags on my site. Could someone offer me an insight as to this is happening? http://cool-invent.com
Thanks,
Lorraine
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You product pages (and other pages, though haven't dug through the rest of the site) have rel=canonical tags in their headers, Lorraine. These are likely being created automatically by your shopping cart software.
This is a very good thing. Including the canonical tag in the head of each page is considered best practice.
Unfortunately, SEOMoz's Crawl Report Page doesn't' do a good job of explaining that the Notices section doesn't mean those items have problems, it's just advising that those features are present on your webpages so that you can confirm that you actually want them and that they've been implemented correctly.
In your case, the canonical tags are desirable and have been implemented correctly. The thing the notice is telling you that I would check on though is that the tags aren't appearing on each page (For example, your home page doesn't have a canonical tag) I would check with your site software/developer to see if it's possible to implement it on all your pages.
Make sense?
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Hi
You may have a canonical meta tag in the page header or please refer to this link about similar products.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
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