: If I remove files extensions from URL but my canonical tags point to the URL with the extension, does that matter? I'm using Adobe Muse to build websites and when the phone/tablet version of

@Michele947

You definitely want the canonical to point to the URL where the content exists and is served, that is the point of the canonical. You also should consider the pros and cons of re writing the URL suffix via htaccess. If the rewrite is for SEO purposes then you should probably leave the page as HTML, even if the rest of the site is asp out other tech. Google doors not like suffix changes it counts as the URL changing and you lose whatever points you accumulated from age of the URL, I have experienced this.

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@Deb1703797

To answer your question, "Yes", Google will ignore the canonical tag.

However, this isn't an ideal situation at all and will only cause you trouble in the long run. If you have no way to edit / remove the canonical tags, why not use one of the standard default file names (index, default, home) always and then you can maintain that file URL for online purposes, but use the directory structure (without file extension) when advertising so you still have pretty URLs?

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