well im confused! i loaded SEO Doctor and the result says that my index page is not indexable because of the canonical settings, however my site is clearly indexed by Goggle. Therefore under more investigation my theme says this about canonical settings..
Canonicalization helps to prevent the indexing of duplicate content by search engines, and as a result, may help avoid duplicate content penalties and pagerank degradation. Some pages may have different URLs all leading to the same place. For example domain.com, domain.com/index.html, and http://www.domain.com are all different URLs leading to your homepage. From a search engine's perspective these duplicate URLs, which also occur often due to custom permalinks, may be treaded individually instead of as a single destination. Defining a canonical URL tells the search engine which URL you would like to use officially. The theme bases its canonical URLs off your permalinks and the domain name defined in the settings tab of wp-admin.
Therefore im confused! :(
PS: ive added the header tag is suggested into my functions.php file, however that didnt change the results on SEO Doctor.
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SEO Doctor and canonical settings
20:16
23 April, 2011
Lonnie
Post edited 20:19 – 23 April, 2011 by Lonnie
well im confused! i loaded SEO Doctor and the result says that my index page is not indexable because of the canonical settings, however my site is clearly indexed by Goggle. Therefore under more investigation my theme says this about canonical settings..
Canonicalization helps to prevent the indexing of duplicate content by search engines, and as a result, may help avoid duplicate content penalties and pagerank degradation. Some pages may have different URLs all leading to the same place. For example domain.com, domain.com/index.html, and http://www.domain.com are all different URLs leading to your homepage. From a search engine's perspective these duplicate URLs, which also occur often due to custom permalinks, may be treaded individually instead of as a single destination. Defining a canonical URL tells the search engine which URL you would like to use officially. The theme bases its canonical URLs off your permalinks and the domain name defined in the settings tab of wp-admin.
Therefore im confused! :(
PS: ive added the header tag is suggested into my functions.php file, however that didnt change the results on SEO Doctor.
So please tell what im i doing wrong!
1:01
14 May, 2011
Vladimir
posts 707
Hi Lonnie
Probably nothing to worry about, canonical settings are an advanced setting and if your site is doing good in Google you need change nothing