Rel Canonical
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I will be quick and to the point. I am clearly a novice. I received a notice on my seomoz account that I had 12 pages with a Rel Canonical issue. It seems serious. Can this be a quick fix? Any thoughts? Below is the site address.
Thanks in advance for any input on this! Dave
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For dynamic pages that contain a ? in the URL
To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/product.php?item=apple-ipod, create a element as follows:
Copy this link into the section of your site.
Copy this link into the section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.example.com/product.php?item=apple-ipod&sort=price.
For static pages
To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/apple-ipod, create a element as follows:
Copy this link into the section of your site.
Here is a link to Webmaster Tools about rel=canonical - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394
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Quilbur - Notices on your site aren't necessarily there to concern you, just for you to make sure you are aware of them. I spot checked your site and it appears you are using the rel=canonical tag correctly. You have 12 total pages, all of them have a correct rel=canonical tag. Nothing to worry about.
I did PM you a couple of other suggestions for things you should tweak however.
Good luck!
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