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Canonical points to a URL that returns 4xx/5xx

seo/canonical-brokenerrorvoid seoupdated

Why it matters

A canonical to a broken URL tells Google to index nothing. This is a scoring gate.

How to fix it

Point the canonical at the live, 200 version of the page (usually the page itself).

References

void seo reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in <head>, self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates.