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Canonical vs.

Started by hfaruk10, March 06, 2019, 02:00:33 PM

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hfaruk10

Any help is highly appreciated.

I am looking to solve the following problem in order to improve visibility to search engines. I am getting this:
Search engines see your http://moje-pravo.com [nofollow] and http://moje-pravo.com/index.html [nofollow] (or http://moje-pravo.com/index.php [nofollow]) as different pages.

So basically, how do I choose one website to be a canonical one over the other?
Best regards

Kindred

those are not separate websites...   and SMF does not use index.html at all.

and, in SMF, /index.php is the exact same as / and your system ALREADY defines it
<link rel="canonical" href="http://moje-pravo.com/index.php">



in other words. you don't have to do anything.
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hfaruk10

Of course, I agree with you, it is the same website, it opens the same website on either.

But here the issue is that the SEO tool which I have been using states that search engines see the two website separately, and as a resolution to the issue, it recommends to have one website which would be canonical.

What do I do then? I am afraid that google search engine will penalize this kind of behavior.

Arantor

If a tool doesn't recognise canonical tags, it's about 10 years out of date and should be treated with caution.

hfaruk10

Ok, then, I guess google will not make problems after all, if that is the case.




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