Google’s John Mueller said on that using the request indexing feature in Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool does not change canonicalization. The question that was asked is if it can help speed up URL removal for a 301 redirected URL. Jan Caerels asked “Clicking “Request indexing” on an old URL that was 301 redirected. … Read more
There is a lot of talk in the wider SEO community around pound signs, #, in the Google Search Console reports, meaning something about canonicalization. John Mueller from Google, along with a number of SEOs, said it has nothing to do with canonicalization. Instead, it has to do with Google tracking on-page sitelinks from the … Read more
Google has added a section to the use rel=canonical link annotations section of the canonical search documentation to clarify that rel=canonical annotations with certain attributes are not used for canonicalization. Google explained that “annotations with hreflang, lang, media, and type attributes are not used for canonicalization.” Google added this section: Google supports explicit rel canonical … Read more
Canonicalization is loosely connected to search rankings, but would it be a stretch to call it a ranking factor? You may have heard that the rel=”canonical” tag is a tool that can be used to consolidate ranking signals from multiple URLs into a single canonical URL. That’s true, but it’s a tool that has limited … Read more
Google has updated its help documentation for canonicalization. It removed a line about syndicated content and also updated a line about noindex to prevent selection of a canonical page within a single site. But Google added a whole section around not using a canonical tag for syndicated content anymore; more on that below. If you … Read more
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