: Is a canonical tag pointing to my home page causing Google to remove my pages from the search index? Google was indexing 1,400,000 of my pages. For the last 15 days, the number of indexed

@Megan663

Canonical tags are meant to be used when you have pages with the same (duplicate) content. When you put a canonical tag on each of you pages pointing to the home page, you are telling Google that every one of your pages has the same content as the home page.

Pretty soon Google is going to be indexing only your home page unless you fix that tag. You could:


Remove the tag entirely
Point the canonical URL in the tag back to the page itself. That prevents Googlebot from seeing duplicate issues caused by stray URL parameters, other domain names that point to your site, or other odd ways that the same page can be accessed on a different URL.

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