When Should I Ignore Moz's Report Canonical Missing?
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I'm dealing with an eCommerce website which has a category, subcategory, products.
Moz is showing all of these and the individual products as missing a canonical.
The site is very thin on content at the moment, but all the pages are clearly different, and I don't see why they need a canonical unless this is some rule that eCommerce sites have to follow.
Should I ignore Moz's missing canonical report?
My understanding is if the product appears in multiple categories, then a canonical should be put in place to the product.
Any advice would be appreciated.
- Christina
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Slap to the forehead!
Of course that makes complete sense.
It's been a very long Monday.
Thanks for your help.
-Christina
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Hi Christina. It is generally recommended for all pages to have a canonical. In most cases, these will be self-referential canonicals. I.e. for a product at http://www.website.com/product the canonical should be http://www.website.com/product.
Have a look at this recent article: http://www.thesempost.com/google-recommends-self-referencing-canonicals/
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