Canonical for homepage problem

  • Resolved gatehealing

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    1 year, 2 months ago

    An ahrefs crawl revealed a “Non-canonical page in sitemap” problem. My website is on WordPress. While my website is https://gatehealing.com/ when I built it in WordPress, it assigned the homepage as URL as https://gatehealing.com/counseling-in-austin-and-west-lake-hills/ (the /counseling-in-austin…. part is just the title of that page. However, this redirects to https:gatehealing.com/ Is this a problem with SEO or is it normal?

    I’m trying to nail down an issue with rankings drop. In my WordPress dashboard settings I have my WordPress address and Site address as https://gatehealing.com … and I seem to remember setting my Google preferred site as https://gatehealing.com as well . . . I just cannot find that setting now. My permalinks are set to /%postname%/

    My understanding from the Google Search Console folks is that this is likely creating some serious ranking issues for my site. There has got to be an easy way to fix this. My website home page, and its canonical version, should just be https://gatehealing.com/

    How do I fix this?

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  • Thread Starter gatehealing

    (@gatehealing)

    Found PART the problem. At some point, Settings > Reading > Your Homepage displays > was set to “latest posts.” I seem to remember that this was necessary because my actual home page was not being shown for some reason,, and changing that fixed it.

    However, even after clearing all caches, my browser history/cache, and even purging my cloudflare cache, line 54 of my source code STILL shows my canonical as gatehealing.com/counseling-in-austin. . . when it should just be gatehealing.com

    Need this to be corrected. Any ideas?

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by gatehealing.
    Thread Starter gatehealing

    (@gatehealing)

    For those following this, the fix is to actually insert the a canonical tag into the header of the homepage.

    Hi @gatehealing it looks like you were able to resolve this problam.

    If that is the case, we would love if you would mark this topic as resolved in the sidebar.

    Thanks

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