Large number of pages pointing to the same canonical URL

  • Resolved emmabrown1012

    (@emmabrown1012)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    I’m getting the following message through from Bing Webmaster tools:

    Large number of pages pointing to the same canonical URL for domain

    https://ssdsafety.co.uk/

    Canonical tags can be used to help de-dupe URLs for pages with the same or very similar content. Bing has detected that your site is using what appears to be the same canonical URL for a large number of pages that are not the same. This may be indicative of a problem with your HTML template, content publishing system, or site code. You should review the source of your pages and check if the URLs used inside the <link rel=”canonical” href=”<url>” /> are not accidentally pointing to the same location for all (or too many) pages.

    I’ve checked to see if canonical tags are set under the Advanced section of Yoast SEO but the field is blank. Will adding them for each page & product fix this problem? If so what does a canonical tag need to consit of?

    Thanks for your help.

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @emmabrown1012

    Thanks for reaching out. I understand Bing webmaster tools reports that you have the same canonical URL set for unrelated pages. By default, the canonical URL field is empty because Yoast SEO uses the page URL as the canonical URL. You shouldn’t have to fill in anything.

    Is it possible to share the URLs of the specific pages Bing complained about? This will help determine whether filling in something in that field is necessary.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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