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 a better URL. I want Google to index and show my link with keywords in the search-results instead of the homepage. So I added a canonical ref. on the homepage that redirects to the other page with a better URL-structure.
But now, Google has indexed the homepage but not the URL with the keywords. So exactly the opposite of what I wanted.
Is it not possible to add a canonical URL to the homepage? If it is, what could be the problem?
the homepage that redirects to the other page
if that is the case then Google won't index the homepage... can you confirm that you mean thatexample.com/
301 redirects to/keywords
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