{"id":38374,"date":"2025-02-20T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/?p=38374"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:46:13","slug":"canonicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/news\/canonicals\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO-Pain Point: Canonicals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\ud83d\udea8 SEO pain point: When canonicals work against you instead of for you!<\/p>

We love SEO. We really do. But sometimes it brings us to the brink of despair.<\/p>

Do you know this? You optimise your website with a lot of love for SEO and set everything up properly:
\u2705 hreflang implemented correctly
\u2705 Internal linking optimised
\u2705 Technical checks carried out
\u2705 Canonicals set correctly<\/p>

And then the unexpected happens. Suddenly Google ranks the German pages in English – and vice versa! \ud83d\ude31<\/p>

The problem?
\ud83d\udd39 Linkjuice was redirected to the wrong version
\ud83d\udd39 Google had difficulties recognising the correct language version
\ud83d\udd39 The rankings suffered because the signals were no longer clear<\/p>

So off to investigate the causes! \ud83d\udd0d
\u27a1\ufe0f hreflang checked? It was clean.
\u27a1\ufe0f Server and caching problems ruled out? Check.
\u27a1\ufe0f Manually set canonicals correct? Checked, no errors.<\/p>

After further tests it turned out: Yoast SEO was not working properly with another plugin and kept setting the wrong canonicals.<\/p>

Our solution? \ud83d\udd25
We switched to RankMath – and lo and behold: no more incorrect canonicals, the hreflang structure remained stable and Google was able to index the pages correctly again.<\/p>

\ud83d\udca1 Learning:
\u27a1\ufe0f Automatic canonicals are good – but not always reliable.
\u27a1\ufe0f Plugin compatibility can cause invisible problems.
\u27a1\ufe0f If an SEO bug cannot be solved manually, the cause often lies deeper in the system.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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If plugins don’t get along, canonicals can work against you – and suddenly Google is ranking the wrong language version!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketingmittwoch-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38405,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions\/38405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loyamo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}