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I have been struggling with a situation where google news bot is getting all the other info from my website correctly but is not able to pick up canonical tag. I have created my website in ReactJS.

Here is the link to my website page which I need google news to detect it's canonical.my website link

Can anyone help what implementation is wrong with the canonical tag on my website or anything missing out on my part?

yash kothari
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  • General SEO questions such as "Why is google doing X" are off-topic for stack overflow, see the [tag guidance](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/seo). – dbc Aug 18 '20 at 05:41
  • That being said, from a sample it looks like all the news articles on your site are setting their canonical link to be the root page of your site: ``. Is that what you want -- the canonical link for all your news articles is your site's root? [Canonical links](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element) are an *HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization* but your site's root and all your news articles are not in fact identical. – dbc Aug 18 '20 at 05:43
  • Yes this is where I am stuck why is it taking root page as canonical not actual page url – yash kothari Aug 18 '20 at 06:26
  • Because the HTML in your website explicitly specifies that it should? When I view the source for the linked page, it starts out ` Article - Explorebit` – dbc Aug 18 '20 at 06:28
  • See maybe [How to use rel='canonical' properly](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/848/100199) and [What are canonical URLs and how do they affect your SEO?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/1047438/3744182). – dbc Aug 18 '20 at 06:33
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    This question appears to be off-topic because it is about **SEO** which is off-topic at Stack Overflow. Please read ["Which SEO questions should be closed as non-programming/non-admin?"](//meta.stackoverflow.com/a/382618) to better understand when SEO questions are acceptable to ask here (most are not) and where you might be able to get assistance. Next time, please heed [the warning](https://imgur.com/a/enYwabk) and avoid asking non-programming related SEO related questions here. – John Conde Aug 18 '20 at 11:44

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