There are like 3 pages about canonicalization in the google search documents. I have read every piece of content, every piece of blog post about everything in search console, still the a canonicalization is a not understood. Google can pick it, but sometimes it is hard, and bla bla crawl budget.
Well, canonicalization is simple, it's a signal that the majority of the page content exists in another place. Trying to squeeze SEO juice out of canonicalization is what's misunderstood.
I have a website I'm working on that sells solar services. I started creating location pages for all the cities that we service and it was recommended that I *not* create a page for the main city in our area - the one with the highest number of searches for CITYNAME + SOLAR - but instead use the home page for that primary keyword target. I really don't want to use that main city name on the home page due to the fact that we service so many cities in our area, which makes on-page SEO difficult for that primary keyword. I also don't want to keyword cannibalize the home page by creating a separate page for CITYNAME + SOLAR since we are currently ranking on the middle of page 2. So I was wondering if I could have the best of both worlds by creating a separate page for CITYNAME + SOLAR and canonicalizing it to the home page. But if you're saying the contents of the canonicalized pages must be very close to the same content, it sounds like that won't work either. Thank you for your thoughts.
Here at BBI, we think that every page should be developed with content that is relevant, informative and search engine friendly. As web developers, when we build or upgrade a website, we always aim to ensure that SEO techniques are hard-wired into the website architecture. This video is very helpful in terms of how we can now approach canonical tags.
I've got to say 3 points to that video: 1. Thank you very much for the explanations 2. What you (Martin) say 'bout the algos is not correct. We got sooo many problems with the .at and .de Versions and what is indexed and can be found in the right (or false) country. Let me explain - wie have a .de and a .at version of our shop. We got a bit different prices on our productdetailpages - there is no other difference. We did not canoicalized the pages - we use (correctly I guess) hreflang on it. And many of the .de-pages rank in Austria. 3. I got an additional question: I got 3 pages on my domain. Page A is a holistic presentation of a topic. Page B is 40% of the topic + 1 or 2 sentences and Page C is 60% of the topic + 1 or 2 sentences. Would it be correct to canoicalize B > A and C > A or would it be better not to use canonicals in this case?
How should I proceed when I see that another website has duplicated my content and place the rel="canonical'' as if it were the original creator of the content, but they are not
If a local service business has multiple pages on their websites that are just slightly different (targeting different geographic areas) is Google likely to not index any of them based on duplicate content or could Google select one of those pages as the canonical url and only index one?
Great video: i have a question though. I just switched an old website to https and created a generic 301 redirect rule via htaccess. However, search console still consider the http adresses as canonical, telling me that the https is a duplicate. I made the switch on august 3rd... maybe i just have to wait? Or do you suggest to take another action? Thanks
Hello, thank you for great video. Can i ask how u can create topic in timeline video? Like: "canonicalization is not a topic grouping", or "is canonicalization a directive or signal for google..". I want to create that in my channel. Thank you for answer :)
Thanks for the information. But still, I have a question: Suppose, I have a blog post on how to START A FOOD BLOG and another one is How to START A FASHION BLOG and of course, I will talk on that specific topic rather than reapting the same info like how to start a blog. So does this also affect CANONICALIZATION? #GoogleWebmasters
You are confusing. I have read somewhere that if you do not put rel=”canonical” then google can split page rank between the two. Is that a lie or what? That must be the thing that people must be more confused about, because google can find that it is dublicate, but anyway split the page rank. What should I do with the dublicate content. You are saying the opposite to what is written in your documentation. Your videos is just about confuing. Why are you even creating these?
Introduce myself my name is Ariful Islam leeton im software engineer and members of the international organization and members of the international health organization WHO
When you said one site is 0.51 and the other was 0.49, what was you talking about? Rank score, or something else, a signal of some sort? Is it something that you have not been writing about somewhere? I have read everything in your documention about SEO, and still I do not know what you were talking about when you said one site is 0.51 and bla bla. You are not clear when you talk. You speak in riddles, so the rest of the video became a riddle.
If google can find the canonical why should I even bother. You did not answer that. Yeah maybe Google have hard to decide, so what? I do not care about googles hardship, then they just have to code better or get faster servers. It is not my problem. As long as they pick a canonical I am fine.
There are like 3 pages about canonicalization in the google search documents. I have read every piece of content, every piece of blog post about everything in search console, still the a canonicalization is a not understood. Google can pick it, but sometimes it is hard, and bla bla crawl budget.
I really like this format. Its casual but packed with useful information. Looking forward to more of these videos.
Thank you
lol that music at the beginning is so eerie I'm not gonna lie
Great information. Thank you for helping to clear this up.
Canonicalization is probably the most misunderstood setting for site owners.
Well, canonicalization is simple, it's a signal that the majority of the page content exists in another place. Trying to squeeze SEO juice out of canonicalization is what's misunderstood.
I have a website I'm working on that sells solar services. I started creating location pages for all the cities that we service and it was recommended that I *not* create a page for the main city in our area - the one with the highest number of searches for CITYNAME + SOLAR - but instead use the home page for that primary keyword target. I really don't want to use that main city name on the home page due to the fact that we service so many cities in our area, which makes on-page SEO difficult for that primary keyword. I also don't want to keyword cannibalize the home page by creating a separate page for CITYNAME + SOLAR since we are currently ranking on the middle of page 2. So I was wondering if I could have the best of both worlds by creating a separate page for CITYNAME + SOLAR and canonicalizing it to the home page. But if you're saying the contents of the canonicalized pages must be very close to the same content, it sounds like that won't work either. Thank you for your thoughts.
Here at BBI, we think that every page should be developed with content that is relevant, informative and search engine friendly. As web developers, when we build or upgrade a website, we always aim to ensure that SEO techniques are hard-wired into the website architecture. This video is very helpful in terms of how we can now approach canonical tags.
Some very useful clarifications about the misconceptions of canonicalisation!
Get ready for your live site audit, dude😁
@@Techjackie I'm always ready ;)
Why not add discovered, crawled and indexed pages with 0 impressions on performance tab list of google search console?
Again, i enjoyed this video, very clear. This is a topic hard to explain and understand.
Love it! Thanks, guys. Helpful and sharing with my teams!
Amazing video, extremely comprehensive. Just shared with my team, thanks for breaking down to all the possibilities and solutions.
I've got to say 3 points to that video:
1. Thank you very much for the explanations
2. What you (Martin) say 'bout the algos is not correct. We got sooo many problems with the .at and .de Versions and what is indexed and can be found in the right (or false) country. Let me explain - wie have a .de and a .at version of our shop. We got a bit different prices on our productdetailpages - there is no other difference. We did not canoicalized the pages - we use (correctly I guess) hreflang on it. And many of the .de-pages rank in Austria.
3. I got an additional question: I got 3 pages on my domain. Page A is a holistic presentation of a topic. Page B is 40% of the topic + 1 or 2 sentences and Page C is 60% of the topic + 1 or 2 sentences. Would it be correct to canoicalize B > A and C > A or would it be better not to use canonicals in this case?
For 3. I would suggest to add canonicals from B and C to A
I would question why B and C exist and consider implementing better copy in to A to cover the full subject.
Can the canonical url to be added in the script be same as the current page url ?
is that useful in any way ?
How should I proceed when I see that another website has duplicated my content and place the rel="canonical'' as if it were the original creator of the content, but they are not
If a local service business has multiple pages on their websites that are just slightly different (targeting different geographic areas) is Google likely to not index any of them based on duplicate content or could Google select one of those pages as the canonical url and only index one?
Hi, just wondering if with Google`s mobile-first approach its recommended to switch canonical tags also to the mobile version?
Thanks for the informative video!
Thanks for spreading useful knowledge... it all cleared my misconceptions regarding canonicalization. :)
I'm confused why Google just said recently this was a problem when my site is a single HTML page with anchor links.
Great video: i have a question though. I just switched an old website to https and created a generic 301 redirect rule via htaccess. However, search console still consider the http adresses as canonical, telling me that the https is a duplicate. I made the switch on august 3rd... maybe i just have to wait? Or do you suggest to take another action? Thanks
Trying adding HSTS headers to all requests.
I love these. Alot of knowledge to share on my show 😀
Does anybody having indexing issues. Google found the content but not indexing it. Don't know why.
Hello, thank you for great video. Can i ask how u can create topic in timeline video? Like: "canonicalization is not a topic grouping", or "is canonicalization a directive or signal for google..". I want to create that in my channel. Thank you for answer :)
i was expecting to learn more about myths around self canonicalization
What about keyword cannibalization?
Thank you for helping and this video
Thanks for the information.
But still, I have a question:
Suppose, I have a blog post on how to START A FOOD BLOG and another one is How to START A FASHION BLOG and of course, I will talk on that specific topic rather than reapting the same info like how to start a blog.
So does this also affect CANONICALIZATION? #GoogleWebmasters
Sounds like they will be 2 distinct posts (if not, they really should be) so no need for any form of canonicalisation.
@@HammyDribbler Thanks brother.
Why not subtitled in Portuguese?
"canonical tags and canonicalization is about reducing duplication" - that's canon, canonical even. :)
Thanks for these
Legends!!
Thanks!
You are confusing. I have read somewhere that if you do not put rel=”canonical” then google can split page rank between the two. Is that a lie or what? That must be the thing that people must be more confused about, because google can find that it is dublicate, but anyway split the page rank. What should I do with the dublicate content. You are saying the opposite to what is written in your documentation. Your videos is just about confuing. Why are you even creating these?
Introduce myself my name is Ariful Islam leeton im software engineer and members of the international organization and members of the international health organization WHO
Please write som good subtitles. Your automatic transcript does not fetch all the mumbeling words
thanks
When you said one site is 0.51 and the other was 0.49, what was you talking about? Rank score, or something else, a signal of some sort? Is it something that you have not been writing about somewhere? I have read everything in your documention about SEO, and still I do not know what you were talking about when you said one site is 0.51 and bla bla. You are not clear when you talk. You speak in riddles, so the rest of the video became a riddle.
If google can find the canonical why should I even bother. You did not answer that. Yeah maybe Google have hard to decide, so what? I do not care about googles hardship, then they just have to code better or get faster servers. It is not my problem. As long as they pick a canonical I am fine.
Canonicalization sounds too much like colonical