Canonical Tag for AMP Pages

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Canonical Tag for AMP Pages

sett

6:43 am on Aug 24, 2022 (gmt 0)

Hi Everyone,

We started using AMP pages last year for our WordPress blog section on our website to improve user page experience and page speed. Our AMP page url looks like

https://www.example/blog/my-blog-post/amp

We use https://www.example/blog/my-blog-post/ as a canonical tag for above-mentioned AMP url.

Now in Google Search Console -> Index -> Page report

The error message is showing for such AMP pages - 'Alternate page with proper canonical tag'

We think our cuurent canonical tag is fine for our AMP page but when we started validation then it is showing our validation failed for AMP pages.

My question is, what canonical tag we should use on AMP pages and how to fix this error?

Thanks

[edited by: not2easy at 12:14 pm (utc) on Aug 24, 2022]
[edit reason] delinked for readability [/edit]

robzilla

7:07 am on Aug 24, 2022 (gmt 0)

That's fine, it's working as intended. It's not an error message. The listed AMP pages will still be indexed, but will show as "Excluded" because they're essentially two versions of the same page.

Make sure you also have the amphtml <link> tag on your non-AMP pages, pointing to the AMP alternative.

sett

9:19 am on Aug 24, 2022 (gmt 0)

Should I start validation for these again?

robzilla

9:26 am on Aug 24, 2022 (gmt 0)

If validation is aimed at correcting the "Excluded" status, then no. That status does not need to be corrected. If the AMP URL is listed, Google knows about it; the non-AMP URL will be indexed, the AMP URL will be excluded (but will still be served to users with AMP eligible devices).