Rel=canonical issue
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We have been alerted that we are "not making appropriate use of the rel=canonical tag".
Please could someone just clarify this for us and let us know the recommended remedial action we need to take to rectify the issue?
Many Thanks,
RB
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Svetoslav
Excellent response.
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One thing I see and might be the reason is that you have
rel="canonical" href="http://appetise.com/"
but domain redirects to
http://www.appetise.com/.
So you have set the canonical version to appetise.com and then a 301 redirect to www.appetise.com. What I suggest is you do is alter the canonical link element to:
rel="canonical" href="http://www.appetise.com/"
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