Canocial link errors

  • Resolved scie

    (@scie)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    Semrush, the SEO analysis website, is flagging lots of pages on my website as having incorrect canonical links. (plugin version 4.2.3)

    As you can see in the link provide, only page 1 of the blog actually has a canonical link. Page 2,3,4,etc… only have the “prev” and “next” links.

    Is there a bug or perhaps my implementation is problematic? It’s not a standard wordpress site (roots framework), but the blog is pretty standard.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    The error you see is not a bug in TSF but Semrush.

    When pages have directives applied, such as robots or canonical URLs, the most restrictive directive applies. noindex for robots supersedes the canonical URL, but only when the canonical URL points to itself. This condition creates a logical problem that’s easily solved, but processing that takes time the crawler doesn’t have, and search engines will postpone processing that condition.

    So, TSF doesn’t generate self-pointing canonical URLs for pages with “noindex” applied to fix this conflict with search engines. This feature speeds up removing pages from the search index, for no canonical URL needs to be processed against a robots-directive.

    In your case specifically, you have “Apply noindex to every second or later archive page?` enabled at “SEO Settings > Robots Meta Settings > General,” and TSF will not generate a canonical URL for those pages. There is no harm in disabling this feature; we have it disabled by default for new sites since TSF v4.1.4.

    Thread Starter scie

    (@scie)

    Thank you for this information! I think I understand now, and I have disabled the setting that you mentioned. All archive pages have canonical links now and are no longer using the noindex tag.

    Thanks again!

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