Assume the following: Ecommerce site with individual pages for each product the store carries. Our SEO decided to use the canonical tag on our product pages. Let's say the URL for a product is: His ...

Reducing reliance on canonical tags can improve product URL discovery on Shopify How you structure your products on Shopify can determine how well these pages perform Shifting reliance from canonical ...

In an ideal world, there would only be one version of each page. Too bad the world is messy and the same content can exist at multiple locations on the same website and other websites. Years ago, a ...

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO help document to add a new section on how to properly inject canonical link tags using JavaScript. The document says Google does not recommend using JavaScript ...

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 ...

The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only want to see one version in results. And site owners worry that if ...

The three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) joined forces in February 2009 and introduced the canonical tag. That was supposed to be a revolutionary way to resolve the duplicate content ...

When Google announced support for the canonical tag just about a year ago, webmasters were excited for the possibilities of a serving a 301 redirect to spiders but not users. But when should you not ...

Google recently alerted website owners of a recent trend involving the hacking of websites to insert a canonical tag and point it to the hacker’s site. Is your site at risk? How can you protect ...