
Why may Google Override User-Defined Canonicals for Duplicate Pages?
1 years ago
Google may consider a page duplicate and select its own canonical due to five reasons. These include region variants with similar content for different countries, device variants with mobile and desktop versions, protocol variants like HTTP and HTTPS versions, site functions in e-commerce sites where sorting and filtering results are seen as duplicates, and accidental variants where a demo site is left accessible to crawlers.