Want to level up your website SEO? Read on to learn more about canonical URLs, an advanced SEO feature.
Canonical URLs play an important role in ensuring that Google (and other search engines) don't penalize your website for having similar or near-identical content. They help ensure that search engines don’t get confused when different URLs point to the same content or page on your website. They're also helpful in ensuring that pages within your website that have similar keywords don't compete against each other for ranking.
Canonical URLs tell search engines where the primary content for a page resides. For example, say your primary page for tops lives at http://myshop.com/tops, but you have variations on tops, like summer tops (myshop.com/summer-tops) and winter tops (myshop.com/winter-tops). Placing a canonical URL of http://myshop.com/tops on each thematic page would tell search engines to index the canonical page and not the thematic URL (e.g., summer-tops, winter-tops, etc.)
Use Canonical URLs in Site Creator
Again, Canonical URLs is recommended for retailers who are knowledgeable in SEO or that are working with a marketing partner. Our Support team must enable this feature for you. Once enabled, the field will appear when you create a page or edit page details.
Create a New Page
- Select Site Creator in the side menu of your CommentSold dashboard.
- Select Pages at the top of your Site Creator.
- Select + Add New Page at the bottom of the Site Creator menu.
- In the Canonical URL field, enter your desired URL.
- Continue with creating the page,
Edit an Existing Page
- Select Site Creator in the side menu of your CommentSold dashboard.
- Select Pages at the top of the Site Creator.
- Locate the page you wish to edit, then select the three-dot icon on the far right of the page row.
- Select Edit from the drop-down list.
- Select Page Details at the bottom of the page menu.
- In the Canonical URL field, enter your desired URL.
- Select Save & Close.
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