Alternate page with proper canonical tag: should you fix it?

Each URL in this report has a rel=canonical tag pointing to another URL. Google read the tag, agreed, and chose to index the canonical. The listed URL is therefore not indexed on purpose, and its signals are consolidated into the canonical. Google's own documentation describes this as a state that does not require action when the canonical is correct.

Most sites have legitimate alternates.

It is a problem when the list includes a URL that should rank on its own. The usual causes are a template that sets every page's canonical to the homepage or to page one of a series, a canonical copied from a staging environment, a CMS that canonicalises distinct product variants to one product, or a JavaScript framework that renders a wrong canonical after the page loads.

Open URL Inspection for the listed URL. Compare the user-declared canonical with the Google-selected canonical; here they should match. Then ask whether the declared canonical is the page you want in search. View the page source, not only the rendered page, to confirm the tag in the HTML matches what the browser shows. Our free canonical tag checker reads the canonical from a live page and flags common mistakes.

Make the page's canonical point to itself if it should be indexed, ideally from the server-rendered HTML rather than JavaScript. Remove canonicals that point across distinct pages. Make sure internal links and the sitemap use the URL you want indexed, since conflicting signals make Google more likely to choose its own canonical. Then request indexing for the corrected URL and check back after a recrawl. SerionFlow is the wrong tool for fixing canonical tags on your existing site; it sets correct canonicals on the pages it publishes, but your CMS controls the rest.