Hide Cross Domain Rel=Canonical
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Hi Guys
I was just wondering what will be the best way to hide a rel=canonical on the server side, my sites rankings got switched exactly with my competitor and the problem is we use the same web designer/marketing people. so they have full access to both websites just found it weird for the rankings to switch so quickly.
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Hi Martijn thanks for the response
at this moment i cant see one i have a suspicion that there is one added to the website, but unfortunately i am not finding it so was just wondering can someone hide it in the server or on the website?
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Hi,
What kind of cross-domain canonical is there at the moment? You could sort of cloak the canonical if you really want to, but I'm having a hard time understanding of what's currently going on before I would suggest doing that and going that route.
Martijn.
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