Wrong canonical URL

Hi @dipokemon,

I checked the Canonical URL of the page you mentioned and it looks absolutely fine. Canonical URLs of your site are generated by WordPress itself and they make sure that search engines don’t get confused when different URLs point to the same content.

If your content is present only on example.com/example/ or if the original URL of your content is example.com/example/ then you will see example.com/example/ as the Canonical URL in the source code and that’s completely normal.

You can read more about this here –
https://aioseo.com/docs/canonical-urls-in-all-in-one-seo/

Good afternoon, @shivamtyag

Agreed, technically it looks right. But I’ve read that search engines may spend more crawl budget on these pages than they need. It means that the robot will go to the page, see the link to the kakonic URL and will check it too. It will take two rounds per page if the robot does not get into the loop at all ??

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by dipokemon.

Hey @dipokemon,

Google’s John Mueller says that while not mandatory, self-referential canonical tags are recommended.

I recommend [using a] self-referential canonical because it really makes it clear to us which page you want to have indexed, or what the URL should be when it is indexed.

Even if you have one page, sometimes there are different variations of the URL that can pull that page up. For example, with parameters in the end, perhaps with upper lower case or www and non-www. All of these things can be kind of cleaned up with a rel canonical tag.

Moreover, the Canonical URL is generated by WordPress itself, and All in One SEO just supplements WordPress by allowing you to specify the Canonical URL, so it’s the default behavior of any WordPress site.