Rel canonical issues on wordpress posts
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Our site has 500 rel canonical issues.
This is the way i understand the issues.
All our blog posts automatically include a rel=canonical to themselves.
eg a blog about content marketing has:Should this tag point to one of the main pages instead so the link juice is sent back to our home page?
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It's always tough to tell without seeing the site, but I agree with Nakul that you should be ok - we have a "notice" level message that sometimes gets overzealous about canonical tags. It's really just a heads up - not an error, per se. We're actually re-evaluating whether that's a good way to handle the situation.
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Nopes. The way it sounds like it's setup correctly. The message you are seeing from SEOMoz is more of a warning then an issue. I would ignore it.
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