eCommerce Canonical Question

Hello guys,

With Magento, if products are in multiple categories but the products are canonicalized to the dominant sub-category version of the product URL, do the internal links within the categories to the non-canonicalized URLs pass equity onto the canonicalized version, or is this effectively lost due to the URL being linked to not being the canonical?

Personally, I would imagine it would be better to set all products to be canonicalized to the domain.com/product level URL and then link directly to this product level URL in the categories and sub-categories.

Any insights would be great.

Thanks

PageRank goes to the page you are linking to - and canonicals don't pass PageRank. So... if a single product has multiple URLs, then each one builds its own PR - it doesn't forward that to the declared canonical.

(Though, if memory serves, there is some sort of doodad in the algo that helps to compensate - but it's a very fuzzy memory from many many years ago so I'm not even sure what that is.)

Roger Marquez said:

PageRank goes to the page you are linking to - and canonicals don't pass PageRank. So... if a single product has multiple URLs, then each one builds its own PR - it doesn't forward that to the declared canonical.

(Though, if memory serves, there is some sort of doodad in the algo that helps to compensate - but it's a very fuzzy memory from many many years ago so I'm not even sure what that is.)

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Thanks @Roger Marquez