Comments on: Google Canonical URLs https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/02/16/google-canonical-urls/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Thu, 14 May 2026 11:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Rob https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/02/16/google-canonical-urls/#comment-10596 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:16:05 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=1825#comment-10596 Be warned!! It’s bullshit that Google supports this. Our rankings have plummeted over the past month after enabling canonical URLs instead of permanent 301 redirects and robots.txt ignore. Turns out when we check in Google Webmaster Tools that all our pages that are bound together with the canonical URL are now considered duplicate content. We have over 4,000 duplicates to a site that’s had no duplicates in the past and a good ranking for several years. Thanks Google!

After researching the problem (although I have failed to find an official statement from Google stating their mistakes) it seems everyone are having the same problem. I’ve even heard of people having to 301 redirect / and /index.html as they are being reported as duplicate. Pretty lame.

CONCLUSION after 5 hours research: Google does NOT support canonical URLs!

]]> By: Aaron https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/02/16/google-canonical-urls/#comment-7398 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:46 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=1825#comment-7398 This looks like a great feature new to Google. I'm sure many web masters, including myself would want to use this. Thanks for the information.

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