I am uncertain about a certain change. We have the following structure.
- Domain: ranks for keyword X
/main-category
(has strong relation to domain name itself and possibly cannibalizes the man domain ranking)/main-category/some-example
In the past we had a canonical tag on the URI /main-category
pointing to /
(Domain). Somehow this was removed.
Now I want to add the canonical tag again on /main-category
pointing to /
. Why? Because the pages are almost identical & also main-category does not rank at all - the Domain does for the given keyword.
My only worry is: What happens to the ranking of a page /main-category/some-example
that is a child of /main-category
? Should I worry about this? (I can imagine it is rather strange to Google that some parent element in a tree hierarchy has a canonical tag on it and the children do not.)