Rel="canonical" in hyperlink
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Inside my website, I use the rel = "canonical" but I do not use it in the but in a hyperlink. Now it is not clear to me if that goes well. See namely different stories about the Internet. My example below link:
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Yeah, I'd have to agree that this is not a sanctioned use of rel="canonical". Most likely, it will do nothing at all. I doubt it would harm your site, but it's not accomplishing anything. Google is even pretty picky about placement of the tag - for example, it doesn't seem to work in the body of a page. I ran some experiments with that a couple of years ago.
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We have all been investigated for 7 months now and the entire website has been changed and the backlink profile cleaned with eg the disavow tool.
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I don't know that that would be the cause in your rankings drop but it isn't helping you in my opinion. You could try removing it. Have you fully investigated whether the rank loss could be related to Panda or Penguin updates?
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The problem is that I just do not need that tag within our website because there are no duplicated pages. I walk to this because our rankings schommellen enormously a subject we already seven months working here. Now we feel that it is because of this.
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Good day!
I don't think adding the canonical to your hyperlinks is going to accomplish what you want. All of the direction Google gives is to add it as a in the of your page ( https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en & http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions ).
From a technical web development perspective, when a rel attribute is present on a hyperlink, it "...describes the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the href attribute..." ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel ). That being the case, a canonical would only make sense in this relationship where the link actually appears on the canonical versions.
Hope that helps!
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