In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller discusses how Google Search chooses a canonical URL from similar or duplicate pages.
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My website has disappeared from Google search even though I was able to manage to rank 1 on my keyword which is Eco Martínez. Now, lots of webs that I don't own are positioning first and my website it's not even listed. Any chance I could talk to someone from support? It's been hours of researching to make it work, and from one day to another all the work has gone to nothing.
It's saying url is not in Google duplicate without user selected canonical. I though Google.would choose then
Can I become a writer for Google?
the explanation was great, however I wish there was more detail on how to let search engines know which URL to use.
how do duplicate pages even happen? I guess I'm confused why Google would have to make a choice between duplicate pages; like where did the duplicate come from? What are some examples of duplicate pages happening if I didn't make them or am not aware of duplicate pages. I'm coming from the perspective of working on a Squarespace site and know there isn't duplicate pages.
What if my page is a landing page (single page)?
Stop posting low-quality content and you won't get hit with weird canonical choices and duplicate content issues 🙃
Hi, just wondering if with Google`s mobile-first approach its recommended to switch canonical tags also to the mobile version?
Google has chosen another canonical URL which caused a duplicate page. You said it doesn't affect anything? Will it be changed after?
Ok,google
how about We have found a Canonical Meta Tag, but it points to a different URL. This means that this page will not be indexable. when I use RYTE?
We have a indoor plant ecommerce store , we have listed one same plant in multiple listings with different pots , like for example a jade plant
1. Jade plant Small $10
2. Jade plant Big $15
3. Jade plant in a concrete pot $17
4. Jade plant with gift packaging $11
Now for all the 4 products the description of the plant remains the same. so do we need to add the canonical tag ( the link of the product 1 ) to all the other products ?
So only the first product might be visible or indexed on google ???
Is it possible to target all the products or is it better to target one out of these many ??
Hi
Google changed my sites preferred canonical and my rankings drastically Fell. Please let me know what to do
When we use canonical tag ,in sitemap it is showing could not fetch sitemap ,what is the reason for this
A have 26 canonical URLs on my site and in search console it's showing those URL's as "excluded", my Alexa is also dropping each day and I have have quality unique content on each URL? Should I put a 301 redirect to all of em??
Tip: try to watch this in 1.25 or 1.50
thanks! looks like you joined from Microsoft and were forced to wear a t-shirt now that you are in google! 😉 Just kidding … ! Great Content!
I couldn't stop looking at his t-shirt the whole video xD
Okay.
Dear John, my website rankings dropped after someone scraped my content in 2 hackerd websites. Only google bot can see the scraped content in hacked websites. Now that my website rankings are dropping day by day since the hackers started doing seo canonical hack.
I have sent multiple requests to Google team to deindex scraped content. But they are rejecting my request everytime.
Original URL: https://www.fscip.org/
Hacked Website 1: https://www.57mobil.de/ (example of scraped content url : https://www.57mobil.de/?man=vigrx-plus-reviews/)
Hacked website 2: https://shop.promoall.ru/ (example of scraped content url : https://shop.promoall.ru/?big=best-male-enhancement-pills/ )
Please help to solve this issue.
so it means this doesnot effect ur ranking
but it exclude the pages
Great explained, thanks a lot.