Opportunity library
Canonical points to another site
A page's canonical tag points to another website, which tells search engines to treat that site as the original.
- Applies to
- One page at a time
- How much work
- A quick fix
- Ends in
- Fix it and see it live
How Lastmod finds it
The crawl compares the host in each canonical with the host of your website.
What you do
If it is not intended, point the canonical to the page's own URL. If it is, record that as a decision.
How the work is followed up
Lastmod looks for your change on the live page and closes the opportunity when the problem is gone. Clicks are followed as context, not as the proof.
More about this problem
Other types in this group
- Missing title →
- Missing meta description →
- Duplicate title →
- Missing canonical →
- Title or description length →
- Internal links via a redirect →
- Hreflang problems →
- Very similar pages →
- Incomplete structured data →
- Indexable account pages →
- Unusual URL structure →
- Few internal links →
- Broken internal link →
- Pages not showing in search →
- Google picked another canonical →
- Content seems to need JavaScript →
- Sitemap needs cleaning up →
- Homepage does not say who is behind the site →
- Missing page with search traffic →
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