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        • Nightwing
          Nightwing last edited by

          Bonjourno from Wetherby UK...

          Ive used a package called screamong frog to diagnose canonical errors but can anyone tell me what this means? http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/understand-occurances-canonical.jpg

          Thanks in advance.

          David

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            Nightwing @evolvingSEO last edited by

            Thank you for all your replies this was bugging me but the pain of not knowing has vanished like the morning mist as the warming glow of sunshine illumunates truth 🙂

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            • evolvingSEO
              evolvingSEO last edited by

              David

              Looks like you may have an issue there. The "address" and "canonical 1" should match about 99% of the time. Right now you're telling Google to index all those different address pages as a single URL (About/right-to-manage)... something to look at - and the suggestions below are both good as well.

              -Dan

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              • Zachary_Russell
                Zachary_Russell last edited by

                I agree with what Streamline Metrics said, I just want to add to this by linking you to a great SEOmoz post on canonicalization which may help you clear things up more.

                In your case, having 1 rel="canonical" tag per page is what you want, so you should be fine with that, just make sure that the canonical tags (listed under canonical 1 in Screaming Frog) is the actual URL that you want.

                Hope this helps
                Zach

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                • StreamlineMetrics
                  StreamlineMetrics last edited by

                  It simply means how many canonical tags are found on that specific page. So if you had two rel=canonical tags on a page, it would say 2 occurrences. For more info, check out http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/tabs/

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