canonical

Hi guys, I have a question regarding indexing strategy when working with two domains: - one expired domain - one new domain The setup I’m testing is using the expired domain as the main indexed asset and the new domain as canonical. My main confusion is about the order of indexing requests...

Everyone loves to talk about “increasing crawl budget,” but here’s the real truth: Google doesn’t care how much it can crawl. It cares about what it wants to crawl. The algorithm isn’t handing out crawl tokens like coupons it’s prioritizing value density. If your site architecture screams...

Hello, guys! I ran into a situation and I’d like to get your thoughts on it: On my website, I have a canonical tag on the homepage pointing to a regional (local) page. For example: Homepage: site.com Regional page: site.com/it/ The content is identical on both pages. It's a kind of hacking...

Hi, I have a competitor who was originally ranking with their homepage. After a recent Google update, their homepage disappeared from the rankings. The next day, they started ranking again with the same content, but this time on an inner page (/new) that had a canonical tag set. I checked their...

Hi BHW Family, I am working on the SEO of a website. Instead of indexing the main pages, Google is showing them as canonical and adding these types of pages: abc.com/water-damage-restoration/?4e791fa3_page=2 How to deal with the issue and index the main pages instead of the above one Please...

Hi everyone, I’m encountering an issue where Google has selected a different canonical URL than the one I declared in my HTML code, and the two pages in question don’t seem very similar at all.The page is only 2-3 months old, and I’m wondering if it could be a crawling issue, where Google...

I have two language versions on the same domain, site.pt (Portugal) & site.pt/br (Brazil) Goal: Specify https://site.pt/br/article/ to rank as canonical, serve duplicates https://site.pt/article/ for localised searches specified in hreflang. Current setup: Some articles are made to rank in...

Hi Everyone, I have a year-old website now I want to move it to a new domain so I have applied 301 redirection. It's successfully applied but now I am facing the problem with indexing. Google Search Console displays the error "Page is not indexed: Duplicate, Google chose a different canonical...

Hello Everyone, Google no longer recommends canonical tags for syndicated content. Source (Search Engine Land) Google updated the document with this information. In the case of syndicated content, they will disregard canonical tags. But does it affect the e-commerce website in any way? My...

Currently I have developed a YouTube downloader, which has millions of users, but it often receives infringing emails from Google, so when I search for keywords, my website will disappear. Since my website is all traffic brought by one keyword, I need to quickly restore the ranking of that...

Is it required to update meta descriptions of non canonical links and links that are 301 redirected?

Hey everyone, I have a question on how to force G0ogle to consider my Саnonical tag. Here is what I have: - An article on my blog - Мedium copy of this article pointing with Canonical tag to the article on my blog Everything looks logical, however, the мedium article outranks my blog article...

Hello guys! I'm starting my digital journey and looking for some advice with my NEWS niche blog. I use WP automatic plugin on WordPress, I use it to automatically post content but I use a rewriter "the best spinner" and a translator. My question is if I should point these articles to the...

Hey, Recently I experienced ranking drop on one of my website. I waited a week thinking that It might just be temporary because I was just adding fresh content and wasn't doing anything negative. While checking the backlinks today on ahref and other tools. I found out that almost all the...

Hello BLW Friends, I am really confusing about canonical tag. I have two website website. 1. example.com 2. example.in My site example.in has example.com as canonical. This both site is mine. If I do the above thing then can I get negative SEO effects on the example.com site?

Hi couldnt find a specific post that talks about this. Anyone can help me? is it the best way to make google rank specific keywords in the page i want? Im having trouble making google understand specific keywords go to specific pages, In general is fine but some are just confusing. Sometimes a...

Hi there, I'm trying to figure out how to use canonical & hreflang at the same time for a multilingual website. I'm currently facing the following issue: "you should make sure to specify a self-referential canonical tag" Let's suppose I have a blog post in English, and a URL for a french...

Hey guys, I'm kinda new in SEO and I'm trying to understand if I'm getting the canonical concept right. So I have an affiliate website with recommendation posts on different products, at the end of each post I add related tags and I can see the tags are also indexed in the search results...

My domain's home page used to appear in Google's serps for my site's main keyword. The page that is displayed as the home page has it's own url too (had to be created as a page by the CMS). So both pages are identical but contain the canonical tag informing google that the homepage is the...

I've got a niche blog with a very high-quality 7,000-word article that has over 1,000 organic social shares and is ranking for some of the main keywords. I'm setting up another blog now which will be taking my full focus and am in the process of building authority content there. What I want to...