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Canonicalized pages that have at least 1 click

  • Hi. we had this issue for our domain?

    Pages with 200 HTTP status code that are canonicalized to another pages and received clicks from Google Search Console for the last 30 days. Canonical tag is a recommendation, not a command, for Google. So, if Google sends traffic to the page that has another canonical URL, he decided to ignore this recommendation.

    how to solve this issue?

  • Hi there,

    Have you clicked the How-to Fix button? What does it say?

  • here the explanation

    Pages with 200 HTTP status code that are canonicalized to another pages and received clicks from Google Search Console for the last 30 days. Canonical tag is a recommendation, not a command, for Google. So, if Google sends traffic to the page that has another canonical URL, he decided to ignore this recommendation.

    Why it is important
    If Google ignores the canonical tag recommendation and sends traffic to canonicalized page it is better to research the possible reasons of it. There are a number of factors that determine what Google consider the ‘correct’ canonical:

    Are canonicals being specified for pages that are not duplicates?
    Does the canonical URL have more link equity than the original URL?
    Is the canonicalized URL referenced in XML sitemaps?
    Does the canonical point at a redirecting URL? (or other non-200 status)
    Does the canonical URL have lots of external inbound links?
    Are there other conflicting robots signals, such as noindex, or disallow?
    Try to answer to these questions for each page in the filter.

    Note! This filter uses historical data from Google Search Console and live updates from Sitechecker Crawler. So, it is possible, that page was canonical and received traffic, but you decided to add another canonical URL to such page.

    How to fix the issue
    If you added another canonical URL recently even though the page received traffic, just ignore the issue for such page. It needs some time to see if Google will delete canonicalized page from index or will ignore the canonical tag recommendation.

    If the page was canonicalized before it started get traffic from Google Search try to identify the reasons why Google ignores the recommendation. In some cases you should change canonical URL to original URL itself, in other cases you should fix issues with URL to which the page was canonicalized: make this URL indexable, with 200 HTTP status code, add internal and external backlinks to it etc.

  • This issue is not related to the theme. If you are using an SEO plugin, you may want to check the settings related to the canonical URL.

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