Yoast Premium & Canonical Tag Help Please

[homeriscool]

Hi all, I need some advice please. I've built a new site, about to go live and a Moz on page grader keeps showing a canonical on every single page.

I disable Yoast Premium plugin and the canonical does not show in Moz on page grader.

Can anyone explain what the heck is going on with this?

Does Yoast Premium do this automatically?

 

[fisicx]

Don't use yoast. There are more wonky options and misinformation in their advice than a government briefing. If you do what they say you can end up in all sorts of bother.

As far as I can recall in Yoast you need to set the canonical URL for each page/post

 

[homeriscool]

Don't use yoast. There are more wonky options and misinformation in their advice than a government briefing. If you do what they say you can end up in all sorts of bother.

As far as I can recall in Yoast you need to set the canonical URL for each page/post

Thanks for replying. What do you recommend using instead? I have heard good things about rankmath.

 

[fisicx]

Seems to be the popular choice these days.

But 99% of all you need to do is fix the page titles and description. You only need a really simple plugin for this.

 

[Aleksander_Gramm]

Also I recommend use Google Search Console to check canonical tag.

For years I have been using Google Search Console only for SEO purposes and I don't understand why people use "SEO tools" to check "SEO things". But it's just my opinion.

 

[SEOpie]

Yoast is great, despite what some people say. It does add self-referencing canonicals unless you change them in the meta box yourself. Canonicals are necessary for certain pages; titles and meta descriptions are not 'all you need'. You may also need an hreflang editor. You may wish to noindex pages.
Search Console is also great. But it doesn't allow you to modify your site. Plus it's a Google product, and your traffic (and bots) may also come from other places.

 

[fisicx]

Ok, I will reword my statement: for most people all you need is the means to edit titles and descriptions.

Yoast does provide other functions but most of their advice (especially the traffic lights) is just plain wrong. The fact they still bang on about focus keywords shows how out of date they are.

 

[SEOpie]

Oh yes, I totally agree. The traffic light thing is nonsense, and the focus keyword is misleading. Forgot about them!

 

[Darren_Ssc]

Canonicals are necessary for certain pages; titles and meta descriptions are not 'all you need'. You may also need an hreflang editor. You may wish to noindex pages.

You don't need a third-party plugin to do these things.

 

[SEOpie]

You don't need a third-party plugin to do these things.

That's correct. You don't. I don't. But people who aren't interested in adding in php code to their template files will.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

That's correct. You don't. I don't. But people who aren't interested in adding in php code to their template files will.

Well I wouldn't recommend you do it that way. But, fair point nonetheless.