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Rule page.canonical.points-elsewhere

Audit the canonical target

page.canonical.points-elsewhere is a check in Crawlmind's site audit that grades medium-impact issues of this kind. This page explains why the rule matters and the exact fix.

Impact: mediumEffort: mediumFixable: 1-click

Why it matters

The canonical on this page points to a different URL. If that's intentional (a duplicate variant pointing to the canonical original), nothing to do. If it's accidental, search engines will drop THIS page from the index in favour of the target: and AI engines will follow.

The fix

Open the page source and check the `<link rel="canonical">` href.

- If the target is correct (this is a duplicate), confirm via
  `Google Search Console → URL Inspection`.
- If the target is wrong, point the canonical at THIS page's URL
  (self-referencing canonical):

```html
<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/this-page" />
```

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