Q: Canonical URL
do you have a help guide for changing canonical url? can i change it once it's been processed? and is there a way to create unique canonical urls as google seems to want to not index a lot fo the pages due to "Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag"
thank you!
SEO_Generator
May 28, 2025A: Hi. Thank you for reaching out.
Currently, we don’t have a specific help guide dedicated to changing canonical URLs, but we do cover it in this section of our video guide (starting at 11:27):
https://youtu.be/5mMmp-kZLkE?si=l7h5cD3gCLM28XX3&t=687
In most cases like this, an SEO plugin (like Yoast or RankMath) adds the archive page as the canonical URL to all pages. This often leads Google to not index the individual pages, showing the “Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag” message.
You can resolve this in one of two ways:
1) Adjust the settings in your SEO plugin to stop it from overriding the canonical URL for SEO Generator items.
2) Switch off canonical handling for the SEO Generator custom post type in your SEO plugin, and instead set the correct canonical URL directly within the SEO Generator plugin.
If you have any further questions feel free to send us an e-mail on info@seogenerator.io.
Kind regards,
Tim & Jeroen
SEO Generator