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canonical.other-page

InfoSEO audit

The canonical points to a different URL, so search engines will treat this page as a duplicate of that URL.

What to change

If this page should rank on its own, make the canonical self-referencing. If it is intentionally a duplicate (print view, filtered list, tracking URL), this is correct.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule canonical.other-page

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "canonical.other-page"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable canonical.other-page on the command, or disableRules: ["canonical.other-page"] to a tool.

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