Canonical Is Relative
What This Means
Pages that have a relative rather than absolute rel=”canonical” link tag. While the <link> tag, like many HTML tags, accepts both relative and absolute URLs, it’s easy to make subtle mistakes with relative paths that could cause indexing related issues.
What Triggers This Issue
This issue is triggered when pages use a relative rather than an absolute URL in the rel=”canonical” link tag. For example:
https://www.getasky.com/froggy/ Has the canonical:
<link rel="canonical" href="/froggy/"> Rather than an absolute canonical:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.getasky.com/froggy/">How To Fix
Google recommend using absolute paths rather than relative paths for the rel=”canonical” link tag.
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