Question - How Google will see this canonical

[Vinesh Kumhar]

Hi just wanted to ask if i have 2 different keywords
1. Course for data science
2. Course for Facebook marketing

Now if i create 2 different page with different url for each keyword. And will use unique content and optimise them as per keyword but what if I use any one page as canonical for second page?

 

[SirLouen]

The canonical URL will be the only one useful for ranking purposes. The other one, regardless of the content won't be taken into the same account. If they are different content it's like setting up a hindrance on purpose
Apparently doesn't make any sense.

 

[Vinesh Kumhar]

The canonical URL will be the only one useful for ranking purposes. The other one, regardless of the content won't be taken into the same account. If they are different content it's like setting up a hindrance on purpose
Apparently doesn't make any sense.

You mean the canonical one will be going to crawled and will rank the second will be not get crawled will be seen as duplicate of canonical page even though all on-page elements are unique??

 

[SirLouen]

Lets say you have two pages
Page A: https://example.com/a
Page B: https://example.com/b

If you put in page A https://example.com/a the rel=canonical to https://example.com/b then page A will be highly hampered while page B will be benefited (in case for example, you build any reputation for page A)

It doesn't mind if on-page elements are 100% different. You are essentially saying to Google that the "real official content" is page B, although this might not be the case.

 

[Vinesh Kumhar]

Lets say you have two pages
Page A: https://example.com/a
Page B: https://example.com/b

If you put in page A https://example.com/a the rel=canonical to https://example.com/b then page A will be highly hampered while page B will be benefited (in case for example, you build any reputation for page A)

It doesn't mind if on-page elements are 100% different. You are essentially saying to Google that the "real official content" is page B, although this might not be the case.

Ohh nice explanation! that conclude Google willl respect canonical and will ignore all the on page content. But is that going save in their database or will get vanished with time???

 

[SirLouen]

But is that going save in their database or will get vanished with time???

The URL will be indexed anyway and you could search for it with the site command regardless of the canonical rel

Think on canonical as a super link to a different page. Like a link that counts for 100 links.

 

[f0rest00]

If you utilize similar content for two pages,
Google may pick the canonical page dependent on signals and presence of the URL in sitemap and rel=canonical marking.

If they are diverse content, it resembles setting up prevention intentionally.