Canonical points to a noindex URL

  • Resolved David Bennett

    (@bennettskaya)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    I think I know what to do, but want to check it is correct.

    I have a WooCommerce site and an audit flagged up that the Canonical points to a noindex URL – specifically

    SITE/my-account/lost-password/ points to SITE/my-account/

    The link is

    <link rel=”canonical” href=”SITE/my-account/” />

    Is the audit correct where it says that this is ‘wrong’ and confusing for Google?

    Assuming so, am I correct in thinking that to correct it I should go to the page SITE/my-account/lost-password/ and edit the rel canonical in ADVANCED to for the URL to point to itself?

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  • The reason for a canonical would be to tell Google there are two similar pages, and which of these is most important so should be the one it indexes. But then if that page is noindex it is a bit moot.

    It’s unlikely to index your account pages anyway as there is no content worth indexing, however AFAIK, in Woocommerce they are technically the same page so if you make the account page noindex, then automatically the lost password “page” will be noindex. Google won’t be there and won’t be confused.

    If the account page is set to index, then so will the lost password page – but because it is the same page but with a different URL, the canonical is correct to point to the account URL (permalink)

    So does no harm either way.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Mr Lucky.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Mr Lucky.
    Thread Starter David Bennett

    (@bennettskaya)

    Thank you – I’ll mark this as resolved.

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