Questions tagged [rel-canonical]
rel-canonical is a way for specifying preferred URLs using link elements in HTML pages within the HEAD tag. It can help in situations where more than one page has duplicate content. {link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com"}
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Why would canonicalized URLs get organic traffic?
I have a set of pages on a subdomain that have rel='canonical' links to my main domain. They have very similar content to each of the page they are canonicaled to, but I want them still accessible, ...
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Should we use a canonical tag even if we are sure the page doesn't have any duplicate?
If my pages don't have any duplicates, and their URLs are all clean (no '?id=123456' stuff), should I still use canonical tags? (from a SEO perspective)
In other words, would bots downgrade me (or ...
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The Specified Canonical Link Points to a Different page
I'm trying to make some SEO in my website, I'm using the Google Webmaster Tools, but I'm getting this error all the time:
The Specified Canonical Link Points to a Different page
I already added ...
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Impact on SEO for scraped news content
I'm making a finance website and apart from our core features, I also want to show the latest news.
These news articles are scraped from RSS feeds (full-article scraping) of some reputed news ...
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How to determine which of these localization links should be made canonical?
I'm adding localization support for GoogleBot crawling to a page that already uses the default cookie approach of ASP.net Core to determine language.
The expectation is that the new system will ...
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How should canonical and alternate links be handled for color variants of products between separate desktop and mobile URLs?
Working on a large scale eCommerce site (15,000+ products), with separate URLs for Mobile & Desktop.
On desktop product pages, we have canonicals set up for color variations, so /product/green/, ...
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Should I use "Canonical URL" in Wordpress Yoast SEO plugin for country targeted subdomains?
I have a main website but I have copied my website to 5 sub-domains each targeted to a different country. Each subdomain's content is same, just a variation in prices, currency and language.
Someone ...
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What URL will Google index when affiliate URLs first 302 redirect and then have a canonical?
Look please at this setup:
There is a main vendor on the main domain, https://example.com.
There are different (many) affiliates, having own subdomains, sub1.example.com, sub2.example.com,
Affiliate ...
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Does adding a canonical URL affect underlying (subdirectory) URLs?
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 ...
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Using relative URLs in <link rel="canonical" … />
I just noticed that Google support's Consolidate duplicate URLs - Search Console Help says:
Use absolute paths rather than relative paths with the rel="canonical"
link element.
Use this ...
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How to declare canonical tag for home page
My website Homepage can be accessed with
HTTPS www.example.com and example.com
HTTP www.example.com and example.com
Also, other URL with Https version redirect to same content.
My question is ...
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Can canonical tags be used to make a single page rank for multiple keywords?
I have a website about 'Virtualization' and I want to rank for 'Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization and Network virtualization' keywords. I wrote a long article about these ...
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Should canonical tags point to the guest post on an external site, or the copy on my own site?
I'm guest posting on a blog related to my niche. The end result would be fresh new content for the blog, and I get a back link to my blog.
I'm also planning on posting the same article on my own ...
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Should I use Canonical Tag ? I have replaced underscore by hyphen in url
I have created a website in codeigniter. Some urls have underscore eg:demo.com/heritagehome_cochin . so I replaced underscore with hyphen for seo friendy URL by changing routes.php file.
My doubt is ...
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Can I configure Google Analytics to use the canonical URL?
The website includes pages like
example.com/category1/product1 and
example.com/category2/product1 and
example.com/category3/product1
Here, the example.com/category1/product1 is the canonical page;...
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How to mark canonical tags for multiple versions of the same product?
We have an automobile research website where we have product pages. Also, few products have some different variants with subtle differences. The case is similar to amazon iphone
If you click on ...
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Google ignoring Canonical tag
I have two pages on the site that are 100% identical:
MyDomain.com
MyDomain.com/Keyword
MyDomain.com/Keyword exists solely because I had to give the page I created in the CMS a url, and that page is ...
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Why would Google canonize between hreflang pages?
So as far as I know, one of the most important use cases, and basically the whole point of hreflang is to be able to control which domain should rank where when it is not obvious.
I notice that from ...
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Should homepage be set up as canonical?
Last 30 days I experianced real ranking and CTR boost on Google Search, only with setting up pages as canonical.
New Google Search Console when indexing pages, also fetches information if page is (...
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Canoical vs robots disallow for sorted content [duplicate]
I have a web page that displays 5 items (each with a headline, image and short content like in a microblog).
Item 1
Item 2
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Item 5
Based on the query parameter in the URL, I will be sorting the ...
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Google selected canonical overwriting non-duplicate translated pages in another language
Google is ignoring the canonicals & hreflangs for perfectly valid and non-duplicate content
Originally the url after language (/de/ or /en/) were the same so I localised those parts as well but ...
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Should mobile sitemaps point to canonical urls
I've recently developed a mobile-friendly version of an old site.
The old site still does really well in the SERPs for key terms, so I don't want to redirect everyone (yet). But I do want to give ...
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Use canonical and alternate URL correctly?
Im not sure on handle the canonical link and the alternate tag correctly.
Example: One product "tshirt" with multiple versions (blue, red)
Version blue:
DE URL: ..de/kleidung/tshirt-de-blue
<...
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SEO Implications Of Canonical Link Requiring Login
Is it considered bad practice for a canonical link on a page return a 302 redirect to a login page?
Example:
If https://foo.com/bar/slug?version=2019-02-01&signature=XXX returns
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Would a JavaScript redirect for location based on the IP affect SEO?
So, we've got 2 separate-but-identical sites (one for US, one for the rest of the world), and were planning on redirecting visitors to their correct one, provided we can guess their location by their ...
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How do I make dynamic pages powered by WordPress Search filter pro SEO friendly?
I have a website which offers different services in different places.
So I have a search page that filters services and places.
I use wordpress CMS and Search filter pro plugin.
My urls are something ...
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Why is "User-declared canonical" URL different between "GOOGLE INDEX" versus "LIVE TEST" in Google Search Console?
I work on a site that has experienced a drop in search traffic lately. On digging into it, we've noticed that our recent content isn't getting indexed. When I check some of the URLs for new content in ...
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How to set canonical tags using Yoast [closed]
I am stuck on fixing canonical issue. I found Yoast's .htaccess file, but not understanding what to put in there.
How do I code it into my website?
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Giving alternate to pdf which is a duplicate to Web page
I have a webpage namely - https://example.com/url/
I have generated a pdf with the same content of the above webpage namely - https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/url.pdf.
I have given ...
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Google isn't finding content in paginated lists
We have a website which lists machine parts by code number. These show in a paginated list:
/parts?page=1 has records 1 to 25 of 356736.
We use canonical, next, and prev links. The list may be ...
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Google does not choose user selected canonical for home page
We recently launched a new website and besides all other pages being indexed properly, our home page is not indexed by Google.
On our Homepage https://diagnostics.roche.com/ we set the canonial URL ...
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Google choosing HTTP URls as canonical than the HTTPS links in the canonical tags after a recent HTTPS migration
I have migrated my blog domain from HTTP to HTTPS. I am running my wordpress blog on AWS Bitnami. I have added necessary canonical on all the posts i.e
<link rel="canonical" href="https://blog....
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How can I use canonical tags to resolve duplication between the home page, category pages, tag pages, and article pages?
On my site I have something like little blog (PHP and MySQL dynamically loaded posts), with categories like "life", "business", and "health".
Each article has added tags. Tags allow to find articles ...
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Correct use of hreflang / canonical tags on regional shopify stores
I'm setting up 2 regional shopify sites. Should I consider canonical tags or/and use hreflang to ensure that search engines will send my users towards the right site.
The first store covers the ...
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Why does Google index a URL with UTM parameters when the canonical URL does not include them?
I've noticed some strange behavior in the search results, where Google includes only the "duplicated" landing page in the search results. Searchmetrics website status then also picks up this page, but ...
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Is there a benefit of specifying the canonical URL for the homepage, or can search engines figure out common index, www, and https variants?
Currently I am considering adding a canonical tag onto the homepage of my website as there appear to be a few other URLs that Google and other search engines are picking up on. Realistically the ...
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Is it possible to redirect a domain while keeping that domain in Google search results?
I have a domain name, https://seo.example.com/, that is currently showing up in Google Search results. I want to set up a redirect such that when visitors view that domain, they are immediately ...
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SEO for a single page application with next and previous - Canonical strategy. I am using vue.js
This is not a SPA (single page application). It has different pages for categories but the filter on left (like amazon) is used for searching.
It shows 10 results in one page and has a previous and ...
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does implementing canonical tags on pages with high page view drop the traffic to them? [duplicate]
My client has a bunch of duplicate content. The problem is all of them have high amount of traffic. So if I implement canonical tags on them, will it hurt the performance?
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Is it bad for SEO only link to non-canonical URLs such that the canonical pages are orphaned?
I have an e-commerce website, and a lot of products.
For duplication matters, every variance of a product have a canonical on a generic product page. For exemple, my specific product is at https://...
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Is a cross domain canonical appropriate when an API is used to pull in data from a page on another site?
This is simply a question to figure out if I am understanding this and my approach is correct.
www.ticketwebsite.example/event/event-name - Event ticket website
www.mysite.example/event/event-...
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Google does not find canonical URL on indexed page even though it finds it in a live test
I have a problem where Google ignores my set canonical tag.
If I use the "URL inspection" tool in the new Google search console I can see that on the indexed page they could not find any "User-...
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Canonical Tag for Home Page
My Website URL is https://www example.com/index.do
My Mobile Website URL is https://m.example.com
What URL need to mention for Mobile site home page for canonical
<link rel="canonical" href="...
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Is it ok to put canonical tags on 301 redirected pages?
I redirected my e-commerce website from Http to Https. Now I want to implement canonical tags for similar products to avoid duplicate issue. In my product pages the permalink is the HTTP version but ...
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Multilanguage with canonicals and without duplicates
Website has two language versions of the pages with different URLs. Wordpress plug-in translates pages after selecting the language in the site menu, not automatically.
Am I doing the right thing if ...
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mobile urls canonical & hreflang
I again have problem when working on the mobile seo urls, so the scenario is below:
We have 2 domains www.example.com and www.example.es
The .es is pointing canonical to .com and that's fine as we ...
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Can canonical tags be used when the mobile site is different in design and 70% similar to the desktop?
If we have around 70% match for the content of our mobile site m.example.com to desktop URL example.com, then how to use the canonical tag?
Can we use the canonical to mobile site itself or still ...
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What's the SEO cost of rel=canonical references leading to redirects?
On www.ubuntu.com we recently started including rel="canonical" tags on every page by default, following Google's recommendation.
However, as you can see on e.g. https://www.ubuntu.com/cloud, the ...
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Changing canonical URL impact on SEO
I have a website with multiple URLs to the same content:
/dog/black/labrador
/dog/brown/labrador
... whereas the /black/ or /brown/ hierarchy can be anything and will always show the same page and ...
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Is it necessary to add a canonical tag for a static site switching from HTTP to HTTPS if there is already a 301 Redirect?
We have a static site that has thousands of HTML pages and are planning to switch to HTTPS in the next few days. As the site is fairly new, we do not have any problems with duplicate content at the ...