Comments on: Canonical URLs – Best Practices, Common Mistakes & Their Impact on SEO

By: Julizar

Julizar — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:58:02 +0000

Hallo… Thank you for sharing.. I have some issue too for almost all of my website including wordpress website and non wordpress website.

This is the wordpress website: https://cutik.net/
for this one seems like there is a conflict coding because of the plugins. But I have too wait for google to crawl my website back.

The other website is https://era.julizar.com/id. This one I don’t have any Idea how to solve it now since this one is not wordpress website. My problem with this website https://era.julizar.com/ is waiting for google to crawl after fixing the issue, but then after waiting for a long time, the problem become bigger and bigger with so many Alternate page with proper canonical tag error.

The same issue with my root domain https://julizar.com/id. This one is even scary than other website above

Any of you can help me with this? I want my website without error.

Thanks

By: Vincent Vuong

Vincent Vuong — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:06:31 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for the great advice for SEO!!

But for the Content Syndication part, you said “The solution? A canonical tag. Did it work? Like a charm”

So you asked them to do Rel = canonical from their blog to your blog?
And they did?

Please let me know, thank you!

By: Peter Paul

Peter Paul — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:00:42 +0000

I want to use one page’s content to my home page’s particular section. What would be a suggestion about the canonical tag? I mean if I use a canonical tag on my home page so it will not be indexed by Google bots. So how can I handle canonical tags for a particular section?

By: Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:44:36 +0000

Hi. Does anyone know whether Google Shopping respects the rel-canonical tag? In other words if I add tags for SEO purposes will that also change my product listings in Google Shopping? can’t seem to find the answer anywhere.
Thanks!

By: Neha

Neha — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:01:06 +0000

Hi Adrain,
Can you please tell how much time it takes for google to show improvement in rank.

By: Adrian Cojocariu

Adrian Cojocariu — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:39:51 +0000

Danny, theoretically as long as the noindex tag is first in the HTML… it shouldn’t matter what’s after.

By: Danny Butler

Danny Butler — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:21:56 +0000

Hi there,

What about using a self referencing canonical with a NoIndex tag?

Our system creates self referencing canonical by default and is built into the template and not something we can easily remove without a dev. However, there’s a number of pages we’d like to No Index.

Does this still have negative implications?

Thanks,

Danny

By: Obsidian

Obsidian — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 06:36:33 +0000

Hi Adrian, thank you for the great article! I have theme catagory pages, but I have tabs on my main posts page I would like to open instead of the category page. Is there a way to get the Category page and Yoast meta to index in Google, but have the user directed to the tab on the Posts page? I did have a simple 301 to do this, but that just causes all equity to go the the Posts page and the Category pages don’t appear to be indexed. Ant suggestions of something I can do with canonicals and redirects to achieve this? Janine

By: Adrian Cojocariu

Adrian Cojocariu — Mon, 20 May 2019 19:05:09 +0000

You can always ‘unoptimize’ the blog category pages. A canonical seems to be the best solution.

However… maybe the user intent is different. Maybe the users are actually looking to read the review articles first.

You could try to optimize the category page for “product name + brand + review / opinions” and the ecommerce pages for “buy + product + brand + price” or something like that.

By: Adrian Cojocariu

Adrian Cojocariu — Mon, 20 May 2019 19:02:02 +0000

Is your homepage optimized for the keywords you’re trying to rank for? You should optimize the page you want to rank instead.

Maybe you’re doing the canonicals the other way around? Maybe you’re telling Google instead of page A show the homepage.

Also, use search console to recrawl and reindex your pages.