a few months ago we set up canonical URLs for many page types such as http://www.wowhead.com/item=50362/deathbringers-will. This worked very well and google picked them all up.A few days ago I implemented the same thing for blog posts but mysteriously it's not working.<link rel=canonical href=/blog=174055/cataclysm-beta-patch-build-13316 />This blog post was written after my change but google shows www.wowhead.com/blog=174055 as the URL; any reason why? I can't really figure it out, the content of the pages is the same, and it's not really any different than what we did with /item and that worked.
Google not following canonical directive for a certain type of URLs
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Your root-relative canonical URL looks funny to me. I'm inclined to include your domain name there. Google says:The rel=canonical attribute can be  used with relative or absolute links,  but we recommend using absolute links  to minimize potential confusion or  difficulties. If your document  specifies a base link, any relative  links will be relative to that base  link.I would be hesitant to judge how Google is indexing until a good amount of time has passed. How old is that url?