Canonical URL usage

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  • Resolved Zaphire

    3 years, 2 months ago

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    Under the Canonical URL in Rankmath it is written:
    The canonical URL informs search crawlers which page is the main page if you have double content

    But i was told by someone from Rankmath the following:
    ‘If you’re going to set the canonical URL manually, its purpose would be to inform Google that it is a duplicate page, and should not be indexed’

    Which is the right one, am i missing something?

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  • Michael Pohida

    3 years, 2 months ago

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    Good question. I was always told you shouldn’t mix noindex and rel=canonical. So canonical is used if you have a page with duplicate content. For example, if you have two articles about insurance but you don’t want article B to eat article A’s link juice. So you set B as canonical and point back to A, telling Google to show A but not B. I’m curious to hear what RM has to say.

    Miguel

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    What Michael said in the previous reply is correct and you shouldn’t mix the noindex tag with the canonical URL.

    That’s why in our plugin any pages that have that tag don’t have the canonical URL applied to them.

    R​​​​​​egarding the usage of the canonical URL, which is used to consolidate duplicate content on your website. You can read more about this and the reasons to use the canonical URL here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls

    Hope this helps clarify your doubts.

    Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

    Ahmet Kaya

    2 years, 4 months ago

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    Zaphire says, should we edit the canonical url box according to the url of our article in the advanced options?
    Or should we leave the canonical url box blank? Does rank math automatically make this adjustment?

    Anas

    2 years, 4 months ago

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    Hello,

    Rank Math by default adds a self-referring canonical URL to the pages that are set to index. You can leave the textbox empty.

    Hope this helps.

    Thank you.

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