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Questions tagged [canonical-url]

For webpages which may duplicate some or all of their content with other pages (for legitimate reasons), the canonical URL is the URL of the page which search engines should link to. This tag is used for canonical 301 redirects and other methods. See the [rel-canonical] tag for more information on rel="canonical".

For example, a particular product in an online shop may be reached through two different URLs, e.g. /product/18274 and /special-offers/18274.

One way of specifying which is canonical is by using tags. All pages should have the following HTML in the header:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product/18274" />

Another way of specifying which is canonical is by implementing s from the non-canonical URL to the canonical URL:

/special-offers/18274 -> /product/18274

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Is it ok for a canonical link to point to itself?

I've got the canonical: Is it ok if this is on the page it is pointing to? Also I'm putting it on all these…
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Can I Use A Canonical Tag Instead of a Redirect for Updated Content?

I have some old articles on my blog that get quite a bit of traffic, but are very outdated. I want to remove them from Google's index using the noindex tag, but I'm not sure what the best approach will be to send the same traffic to my new article…
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What does Google do with multiple canonical links on one page?

Facing a weird issue. Something in the latest Magento 1.x update caused a few pages on our site to have 2 canonical links. Seems to just be pagination pages include both the unpaginated url and the paginated url. Does Google just ignore the first…
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Canonicals with differing content

Interesting conundrum here with canonicals. Lets say I have a site with a "verified" system where other websites can become so and so "verified". Their url to send people to confirm verification is something like "blah.com/verify/company1" and…
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page not indexed - duplicate without user selected canonical

I have submitted sitemap to google and it keeps identifying unique product pages as duplicates. Can someone please explain why its happening and how to resolve them please. All the product pages are generated dynamically. below is a sample…
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Can it be beneficial to use a canonical tag from your homepage to another website page if you want to rank that page?

I want to rank for keyword 'python cursus' with webpage https://pythoncursus.nl/python-cursus/. Given the fact that it's an exact match domain, I think Google is confused about which page to rank. And also probably reluctant to rank the page because…
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How to resolve Google Suggested Canonical tag Issue?

I don't know how to fix this issue. Why does Google suggest another page as canonical, as opposed to the one selected by us?
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Canonical. Two methods at the same time?

I have a blog. I am considering to post also on LinkedIn, the same text. My blog is for me the most important. If I understand I can: Put a link in the head of my blog: In the post…
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Branded organic traffic to pages having canonical tags to other domain, possible?

There are two sites/domains: old and new one, they both use the same structure and content. I want a new site to get all the organic traffic except branded organic traffic of the old site, that the old site should be getting. If on the pages of the…
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Canonical url homepage

I have a mini-website that has one unique webpage that talks about a product. The current existing links for this website are: www.example.com www.example.com/keywords-important-for-webpage Both pages show the same content, only the second page has…
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Should I have to use canonical if I rewrite my URL?

For example if I have only one HTML page in my directory and if the link is http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing-page.html and, using .htaccess if I rewrite the URL to http://www.mydomain.com/my-landing-page, should I use canonical tag anywhere? Or…
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Canonical URL for paged results pages

If you use a canonical url meta tag on a paged result page, will Google still link to it when a keyword is found? I have a forum which has multiple pages for each topic. 10 posts per page. When I google for a topic title, I see that page but also a…
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How to fix "no user selected canonical" on downloadable file

I have a pdf file liked to page. This can be downloaded. Sample Certificate GSE is telling me Page Indexing…
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