R006: Canonical URL points at a different-locale variant
Whether the page declares itself Arabic and right-to-left, and whether its title, metadata, canonical and alternates agree with that.
The check
- Id
- R006
- Category
- Document and metadata
- Default severity
- low
What it looks for
Canonical URL points at a different-locale variant
How to fix it
Point rel=canonical at the Arabic URL itself; cross-locale canonicals tell search engines the Arabic page is a duplicate of the foreign one.
More document and metadata checks
- R001document direction missing, contradicted, or declared only in CSS
- R002html[lang] missing, non-Arabic, or contradicting detected content
- R003hreflang alternate set lacks any Arabic entry on an Arabic page
- R004<title> or meta description majority-Latin on an Arabic page
- R005OpenGraph/Twitter metadata untranslated or og:locale missing/invalid
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