Blog Canonicals and duplicates
Canonicals and duplicates.
Canonical tags, duplicate URLs, hreflang, and the mess of near-identical pages. 6 posts, newest first.
Hreflang errors: why your country versions are not indexed (and how to fix them)Hreflang errors that make Google ignore your country versions, where Search Console reports them now International Targeting is gone, and the fix.
Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user: what it means and when to actWhat the Search Console status Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user means, why your tag was overruled, and when to fix it.
301 vs 308 redirect: does the difference matter for SEO?Google treats 301 and 308 redirects identically: both are permanent, strong canonical signals. Where the two differ and when you would care.
Do trailing slashes matter for SEO?Google treats /page and /page/ as two separate URLs. When that costs you, when it does not, and what I found auditing my own site for it.
Alternate page with proper canonical tag: what it meansThe one Search Console status that tells you nothing is wrong. What Google means by alternate, why the count can be large, and when to actually look.
Duplicate without user-selected canonical: what it meansGoogle found a duplicate and picked the canonical for you because you never picked one. When that is correct, when it is not, and how to tell them apart.Nothing in that category yet.
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