: Canonical url homepage I have a mini-website that has one unique webpage that talks about a product. The current existing links for this website are: www.example.com www.example.com/keywords-important-for-webpage

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If you have a one page site you should host the content on the root of the site and not try to stuff more keywords in the URL by using a second page. Use a Title for the Home Page that uses the keywords you are targeting and proper on page SEO such as H1 tags and keyword rich content that is not spammy or written to try to only target the Google Bot.

If you're going to do this you should use a 301 redirect from the root to the subfolder instead of just relying on canonicals. When using canonical tags Google will still index both pages and decide which it wants to display. It's not a guarantee that it will be the one you want and if both pages are indexed could take a while (my experience is 3 to 6 months) for the unintended page to fall out of the SERPs.

More info on the difference between 301 and Canonicals can be found at this Search Engine Watch article: searchenginewatch.com/article/2288690/How-and-When-to-Use-301-Redirects-vs.-Canonical

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