{"id":16567,"date":"2026-09-02T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/canonicalization-basics\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:46:02","slug":"canonicalization-basics","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/canonicalization-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonicalization: Choosing One URL Among Duplicates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duplicate URLs are normal, not a penalty. Parameters, session IDs, <code>http<\/code> and <code>https<\/code>, <code>www<\/code> and non-<code>www<\/code>, trailing slashes, print versions, all produce multiple addresses for one piece of content. Google groups them and selects a <em>canonical<\/em>: the version it indexes and shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Signals Google uses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><code>rel=\"canonical\"<\/code> link elements<\/li><li>Redirects<\/li><li>Internal linking patterns, which version you link to most<\/li><li>Sitemap inclusion<\/li><li>HTTPS preference<\/li><li>URL cleanliness<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The canonical tag is a hint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not a directive. Google can and does choose a different URL when other signals contradict the tag. Search Console shows both &#8220;User-declared canonical&#8221; and &#8220;Google-selected canonical&#8221;, a mismatch tells you your signals disagree with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ar-kb-tavsiye\"><p><strong>Alien Road recommends:<\/strong> make your internal links agree with your canonical tags. This is the single most common contradiction we find: the canonical says <code>\/product\/<\/code> while every internal link points at <code>\/product\/?ref=nav<\/code>. Google weighs behaviour over declaration, so fix the links rather than adding more tags.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the same content is reachable from several addresses, Google picks one. Here is how that choice is made and how to influence it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[504],"ar_kb_etiket":[568,569,530],"class_list":["post-16567","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-canonicalization","ar_kb_etiket-canonical","ar_kb_etiket-duplicate-content","ar_kb_etiket-indexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23692,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16567\/revisions\/23692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}