Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical
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When I'm checking my page on SEOmoz should I use http://www. or http:// or www. or just keyword.com?
And I get this for my check
Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical
Moderate fix
<dl>
<dt>Canonical URL</dt>
<dd>XXX</dd>
<dt>Explanation</dt>
<dd>If the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL.</dd>
<dt>Recommendation</dt>
<dd>We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.</dd>
<dd>I have absolutely NO idea what this means
</dd></dl>
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I don't understand what you said
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The tag is usually used to indicate you have duplicate/very similar content on the same site.
So if you have the tag pointing to an offsite site/page it could be the reason you are getting the warning?
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