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hi thomas, yes - we are keeping the yoast plug-in but switching the rss feed plug-in to a different one that will enable us to switch off the canonical ref.

HI Tom, thankyou very much for your help and information on this.  We have now investigated where the second canonical url was coming from and we found that the plugin we use to import the daily feed (RRS Post Importer) is also adding in it’s own canonical URL (as well as the yoast seo).  We are now going to look at switching in a different plug-in for this which will give us functionality to delete the rel-canonical reference, as the one we have doesn't enable you to do this.

Again, thanks for your help.

Kind regards

Matthew

Hi Gents, thanks for your replies.

Tom - Ive looked in detail at both the canonical references in the header on my page at they both look the same -

Line 23 -

href='http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/' />

Line 133 –

href="http://www.completetenders.com/services/bid-management/" />

the only difference I can see is the first one uses '...'  and the second one uses "..."

can you confirm if I should amend this in yoast or whether this is something that only moz is picking up as two different canonicals?

HI, I'm an SEO novice - company owner with no money so doing it all myself with help from my web designer using wordpress.  Ive just completed some seo and done the moz page scoring analysis for optimisation and gained 92% - however - there is one outstanding issue on canonical url tags - i.e.

recommened fix = The canonical URL tag is intended to refer duplicate pages to a single canonical URL. To ensure the search engines properly parse the canonical source, your page should use only one version of this tag in the header. See Canonical URL Tag - the Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps

Ive gone through the page code and can see I have 2 rel=canonical references - am I able to simply delete one - how do I do this if its been created by the yoast/wordpress plug-in?

Many thanks in advance for any help!