: Canonical URL's for interchangeable parameters I'm wondering how should I use canonical tags in such a case: I compare two items, lets say shoe brands. So one of my pages look like this: http://shoes.com/compare/adidas/vs/n

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I'm wondering how should I use canonical tags in such a case:

I compare two items, lets say shoe brands. So one of my pages look like this:
shoes.com/compare/adidas/vs/nike/

and another page :
shoes.com/compare/nike/vs/adidas/

Of course, 100% same content.
I guess the alphabetical order makes sense, so probably I will use the first one.

But how about canonical tags? Will stating the first one as canonical work?

I'm asking this because all of the time, I have thought canonical url's in this form:

site.com/root/a/b/c


and the canonical is site.com/root/a/b or site.com/root/a

i.e., I thought that canonical URL's are only valid for themselves, and their "children" paths.

So in this, "sibling-like-path" case, will the canonical work?

Thanks for any help :)

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