What does Google do with multiple canonical links on one page?
Facing a weird issue. Something in the latest Magento 1.x update caused a few pages on our site to have 2 canonical links. Seems to just be pagination pages include both the unpaginated url and the paginated url.
Does Google just ignore the first link, ignore the second link, or ignore both links?
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Facing a weird issue. Something in the latest Magento 1.x update caused a few pages on our site to have 2 canonical links. Seems to just be pagination pages include both the unpaginated url and the paginated url.
Does Google just ignore the first link, ignore the second link, or ignore both links?
canonical-url
asked Dec 10 at 14:13
Octoxan
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add a comment |
Facing a weird issue. Something in the latest Magento 1.x update caused a few pages on our site to have 2 canonical links. Seems to just be pagination pages include both the unpaginated url and the paginated url.
Does Google just ignore the first link, ignore the second link, or ignore both links?
canonical-url
asked Dec 10 at 14:13
Octoxan
1183
Facing a weird issue. Something in the latest Magento 1.x update caused a few pages on our site to have 2 canonical links. Seems to just be pagination pages include both the unpaginated url and the paginated url.
Does Google just ignore the first link, ignore the second link, or ignore both links?
canonical-url
canonical-url
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Octoxan
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asked Dec 10 at 14:13
Octoxan
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Octoxan
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Octoxan
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If you specify multiple canonical tags, Google will ignore all the canonical tags.
Having multiple canonical tags would be a reason that Google would choose to ignore canonical tags. Google also chooses to ignore canonical tags in other cases where they are malformed:
- All the tags point to the home page
- The tags are implemented in the
<body>rather than the<head>
- The tags use relative rather than absolute links
- The canonical page does not appear to be a duplicate page.
Google only sees canonical tags as a "strong hint" that one page is your preferred page. When Google finds a canonical tag it often chooses to ignore it. Google now has the concepts of "user chosen canonical" and "Google chosen canonical" that it shows you in Google search console.
Google also seems to be ignoring canonical tags for other unknown reasons recently. I've seen cases where Google chooses to index http:// pages even when all the canonical point to the https:// versions. It seems to take Google as much as a year to "trust" the user chosen canonical version enough to index it over the version that Google already has indexed.
answered Dec 10 at 14:30
Stephen Ostermiller♦
66.6k1391244
That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
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If you specify multiple canonical tags, Google will ignore all the canonical tags.
Having multiple canonical tags would be a reason that Google would choose to ignore canonical tags. Google also chooses to ignore canonical tags in other cases where they are malformed:
- All the tags point to the home page
- The tags are implemented in the
<body>rather than the<head>
- The tags use relative rather than absolute links
- The canonical page does not appear to be a duplicate page.
Google only sees canonical tags as a "strong hint" that one page is your preferred page. When Google finds a canonical tag it often chooses to ignore it. Google now has the concepts of "user chosen canonical" and "Google chosen canonical" that it shows you in Google search console.
Google also seems to be ignoring canonical tags for other unknown reasons recently. I've seen cases where Google chooses to index http:// pages even when all the canonical point to the https:// versions. It seems to take Google as much as a year to "trust" the user chosen canonical version enough to index it over the version that Google already has indexed.
answered Dec 10 at 14:30
Stephen Ostermiller♦
66.6k1391244
That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
add a comment |
If you specify multiple canonical tags, Google will ignore all the canonical tags.
Having multiple canonical tags would be a reason that Google would choose to ignore canonical tags. Google also chooses to ignore canonical tags in other cases where they are malformed:
- All the tags point to the home page
- The tags are implemented in the
<body>rather than the<head>
- The tags use relative rather than absolute links
- The canonical page does not appear to be a duplicate page.
Google only sees canonical tags as a "strong hint" that one page is your preferred page. When Google finds a canonical tag it often chooses to ignore it. Google now has the concepts of "user chosen canonical" and "Google chosen canonical" that it shows you in Google search console.
Google also seems to be ignoring canonical tags for other unknown reasons recently. I've seen cases where Google chooses to index http:// pages even when all the canonical point to the https:// versions. It seems to take Google as much as a year to "trust" the user chosen canonical version enough to index it over the version that Google already has indexed.
answered Dec 10 at 14:30
Stephen Ostermiller♦
66.6k1391244
That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
add a comment |
If you specify multiple canonical tags, Google will ignore all the canonical tags.
Having multiple canonical tags would be a reason that Google would choose to ignore canonical tags. Google also chooses to ignore canonical tags in other cases where they are malformed:
- All the tags point to the home page
- The tags are implemented in the
<body>rather than the<head>
- The tags use relative rather than absolute links
- The canonical page does not appear to be a duplicate page.
Google only sees canonical tags as a "strong hint" that one page is your preferred page. When Google finds a canonical tag it often chooses to ignore it. Google now has the concepts of "user chosen canonical" and "Google chosen canonical" that it shows you in Google search console.
Google also seems to be ignoring canonical tags for other unknown reasons recently. I've seen cases where Google chooses to index http:// pages even when all the canonical point to the https:// versions. It seems to take Google as much as a year to "trust" the user chosen canonical version enough to index it over the version that Google already has indexed.
answered Dec 10 at 14:30
Stephen Ostermiller♦
66.6k1391244
If you specify multiple canonical tags, Google will ignore all the canonical tags.
Having multiple canonical tags would be a reason that Google would choose to ignore canonical tags. Google also chooses to ignore canonical tags in other cases where they are malformed:
- All the tags point to the home page
- The tags are implemented in the
<body>rather than the<head>
- The tags use relative rather than absolute links
- The canonical page does not appear to be a duplicate page.
Google only sees canonical tags as a "strong hint" that one page is your preferred page. When Google finds a canonical tag it often chooses to ignore it. Google now has the concepts of "user chosen canonical" and "Google chosen canonical" that it shows you in Google search console.
Google also seems to be ignoring canonical tags for other unknown reasons recently. I've seen cases where Google chooses to index http:// pages even when all the canonical point to the https:// versions. It seems to take Google as much as a year to "trust" the user chosen canonical version enough to index it over the version that Google already has indexed.
answered Dec 10 at 14:30
Stephen Ostermiller♦
66.6k1391244
answered Dec 10 at 14:30
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answered Dec 10 at 14:30
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answered Dec 10 at 14:30
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That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
add a comment |
That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
That's exactly what I needed to know. If I should dive into the Magento core to figure out why it's spitting out two tags, or just ignore it. Time to dive!
– Octoxan
Dec 10 at 14:55
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
Here's the primary source: webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/…
– Maximillian Laumeister
Dec 10 at 17:12
add a comment |
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