Weebly mixing up links for keywords, subpages messed up, etc

[AK_ACve]

Hi, 

I was able to look past a lot for Weebly as I've used it in the past and it's honestly one of the best hosts for putting a website on the internet IMO, but this is a serious problem which I want to tackle very carefully. So I'm asking for help on a couple things. 

Upon posting my first article, I had to mess around wtih canonical tags a little bit, and I'm pretty sure I set it up properly. Google also does some of this for us in the search results, but I didn't use the tag for the blogs page, as Weebly reccomended not doing so. 

However, posting my second article created some issues

Article1 uses /writing-runescape/ 

Article1 uses /osrs/

(Both are linked this way for nofollow) — this is fine and all, but why? I created them with the same method of clicking "new post". This brings me to the second, more important question: 

Article1 (Rune Dragon Alt) links to the "mahogany trees" search result while Article 2 (Mahogany Trees) links to "Rune Dragon Alt" How do I fix this? And should I add the canonical tag to my runescape-related blog page header? Can I? 

[Adam7]

Welcome to the Community, @AK_ACve. Thanks for making your first post.

Are those blog posts made on different blog pages? The only reason that the URL would be different is if you have more than one blog page and made a blog post for each.

[AK_ACve]

Hi,

I made these blog posts using the same editor, by going to the writing: runescape page of my website, to then click "new post" 

I guess this could be done with redirects, right? I've been Googling around since making this post for the method of using https:// instead of http:// or www. or pissgaming.zone for backlinks, and coming back to this post today it would seem I could "kill two birds with one stone" right? 

Been a while since I did all of this, but I recall it was a 301 redirect or something. Though I'm not completely sure and setting these for my website via the domain registars CP ruined the website in the Google Search Console. So I haven't been able to do this myself yet, but maybe this update helped. 

[AK_ACve]

Update: 

Google seems to be picking the right blog posts now, after changing the header of the blog page to canonical. However, the 1st blog post out of 2 is ranking on Google for its keywords via the blog feed, not the post. So, the search result links to the blog and not the article. 

These issues were never present in Weebly before, TBH. 

Will robots.txt fix this issue at all? Before I start working on that. Any input is appreciated. 

[Adam7]

@whitemonkey, do you think what @AK_ACve is seeing is a result of adding the canonical tag, or just that Google indexed the main blog page and ranked that higher than the blog post page itself?

[whitemonkey]

@Adam 

Thanks for the shout out. Some of the theme on this thread is a bit out of my league but my opinion on adding BLOG pages, would be  NOT TO ADD MORE THAN ONE BLOG PAGE.

My blog is about travel. I could call the BLOG page  TRAVEL BLOG and then, when i write posts on VISAS or HOSTEL REVIEWS, would be to add categories as such, not to run multiple blog pages like i started doing, BLOG, VISAS, HOSTEL REVIEWS.

GSC failed to index categories, fails to index previous when blog posts are shunted to page 2 or page 3 when u have more than 25 posts

Or maybe i am barking up the wrong tree... hence i am using standard pages with great effect but have to manually create categories, etc....  loads more work but hugely benficial in my opionion

GSC has lots of bugs....it says it has indexed pages but when i site:completeurl it says its unknown.  And showing errrors....  like /fffff.html   (a test page) is being linked from another page and as i deleted and set up a redirect for /fffff.html, and i have rebuilt the aforementioned  'another page' yet the error still exists.

I add cannonical tags on all pages bar BLOG style pages

My Home page has my main blog name url.     Its a bit weird when weebly gives the home page a URL of /index.html as well.  Would love an explanation on this.....

And i dont run duplicate content on my blog, except my home page footer.   

Thanks