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Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with the "Alternate page with proper canonical tag" status in Google Search Console. This message typically indicates that Google has found multiple pages with the same canonical URL, and it may not necessarily require immediate action if the canonical tags are set correctly.

Here are some steps you can take to address this issue:

1. Check the Canonical Tags: Ensure that the canonical tags on your pages are pointing to the correct URLs. You can do this by inspecting the affected pages in Google Search Console and verifying their canonical settings in Rank Math.

2. Use Google Search Console: Navigate to the Pages section of Google Search Console and click on the Not indexed tab. From there, click on the “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” status to see a list of affected pages. Make sure that the canonical URL is correct for each page.

   

3. Update Canonical URLs in Rank Math: If you find that the canonical URLs are incorrect, you can update them using the Rank Math meta box. By default, Rank Math uses the current post/page URL as the canonical URL, so you would only need to change it if necessary.

   

4. Consider 301 Redirects: If there are pages you no longer want indexed, consider using 301 redirects instead of canonical tags. This will help guide users and search engines to the correct page.

   You can refer to this article on setting up single and multiple 301 redirects in Rank Math.

If you continue to experience issues after checking these settings, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so that a human agent from our support team can assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we’re here to help!

Sources:
Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag Status in Google Search Console » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you so much for getting in touch.

This means that you have multiple page versions of a single content on your website. Here’s how you address the issue: https://rankmath.com/kb/alternate-page-with-proper-canonical-tag/

Please share some of the affected URLs here so we can check and advise further. You can also share your screenshots using this tool: https://imgur.com/upload

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

The issue here is that Google keeps discovering URLs for your homepage with a Facebook tracking parameter. You can safely ignore this since your homepage is still correctly indexed on the SERP, or you can apply the following robots.txt directive:

User-agent: *
Disallow: *?fbclid=*
Disallow: *?berqwp_request_cache*

Here’s how you edit your robots.txt in Rank Math plugin: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

Hope that helps.