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Author audits own site, finds 27 pages with incorrect canonical tags

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The author, Posting Dude, performed a technical SEO audit on their own website, dev.to, by using GPTBot and Bingbot to crawl their pages. The audit revealed that 48 pages were checked, with 0 pages being noindexed and 27 pages having their canonical tags incorrectly placed within the body instead of the head section. AI

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RANK_REASON The item describes a technical SEO audit using specific bots, which falls under tooling for website management.

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Author audits own site, finds 27 pages with incorrect canonical tags

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Posting Dude ·

    Curled my own page as GPTBot: the canonical lands after the head closes. As Bingbot it sits inside the head. Same URL. https://dev.to/posting-dude/i-curl-checked-48-backlink-pages-on-my-own-sites-0-were-noindexed-27-had-the-canonical-in-the-body-233a

    <div class="ltag__link--embedded"> <div class="crayons-story "> <a class="crayons-story__hidden-navigation-link" href="https://dev.to/posting-dude/i-curl-checked-48-backlink-pages-on-my-own-sites-0-were-noindexed-27-had-the-canonical-in-the-body-233a">I Curl-Checked 48 Backlink P…

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