Canonical & Indexability Conflicts
11 Intentional IssuesEach link below opens a page with one intentional canonical or robots-directive problem. A site audit crawling these pages should flag every one of them.
Test Pages
- #238Issue #238: noindex page with a canonical pointing elsewherenoindex page with a canonical pointing elsewhere
/canonical-issues/noindex-with-canonical - #239Issue #239: Robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag header disagreeRobots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag header disagree
/canonical-issues/robots-header-conflict - #240Issue #240: More than one canonical tagMore than one canonical tag
/canonical-issues/multiple-canonicals - #241Issue #241: Canonical URL written as a relative pathCanonical URL written as a relative path
/canonical-issues/relative-canonical - #242Issue #242: Canonical points at an error pageCanonical points at an error page
/canonical-issues/canonical-to-error - #243Issue #243: Canonical points at a redirectCanonical points at a redirect
/canonical-issues/canonical-to-redirect - #244Issue #244: Canonical points at a noindex pageCanonical points at a noindex page
/canonical-issues/canonical-to-noindex - #245Issue #245: Canonical target canonicalises to another pageCanonical target canonicalises to another page
/canonical-issues/canonical-chain - #246Issue #246: Paginated page canonicalised to the first pagePaginated page canonicalised to the first page
/canonical-issues/articles/page/2 - #247Issue #247: Canonical tag outside the headCanonical tag outside the head
/canonical-issues/canonical-in-body - #248Issue #248: HTML canonical and HTTP Link-header canonical disagreeHTML canonical and HTTP Link-header canonical disagree
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