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Hi Team,
I submitted a URL in the URL inspection tool of Google search console then I got the “Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical” message. ( screenshot – https://ibb.co/HzNQvy2)
After that, I saw the WordPress editor and found that the default canonical URL has disappeared (screenshot – https://ibb.co/86TxxH7).There used to be a default canonical URL which is not there now. I have no idea what’s going on. Please help.
Please let me know if any other information is required.
Thank You
Rajat Tyagi
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
The canonical textbox should be empty as it is right now.
Rank Math adds a default canonical tag on each indexed page. I have checked the source code of your webpage and a canonical tag is present on the webpage.
I could see that the URL was last crawled on March 29, you could wait for the next crawl or request indexing for this page.
There is no need to worry about it.
Let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
We are here to help you.
Hello,
Thank you for keeping in touch with us.
We might need to take a closer look at the settings and investigate the issue that you are experiencing. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
Thank you for keeping in touch with us.
Upon checking your pages, the canonical URL is indeed visible if you head over to your page source as also seen by my colleague.
Can you please clear your website’s cache and let google recrawl your page again?
Also, upon further checking in your admin, I noticed if you switch to the default theme, the default canonical in the field’s placeholder will appear.
You can test this out by following this troubleshooting guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/
Only the site admin would know and your users won’t be affected by this troubleshooting.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
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