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Repeated canonical tag

canonicals.multiple_conflicting
Priority
High
Severity
Warning

What we look for

The HTML of these pages holds more than one canonical tag (the line naming a page's preferred address).

Why it matters

If the tags name different addresses, search engines ignore them all and choose the version to show themselves.

How to fix

Remove the extra canonical tags so each page has one, in the page template or the SEO plugin that adds them. This often happens when a theme and a plugin both add one.

What it cannot know

Raptor counts the tags but does not check whether they name the same address.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: canonicals.multiple_conflicting
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "canonicals.multiple_conflicting"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=canonicals.multiple_conflicting
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "canonicals.multiple_conflicting"
}