: Is it possible for Google to disregard my canonical tag? I was wondering if it is possible for Google to disregard the canonical tag, if for example they decide it is wrongly put based on
I was wondering if it is possible for Google to disregard the canonical tag, if for example they decide it is wrongly put based on behavioral data.
On my blog's individual blog posts there is a canonical tag for the example.com/blog/details. In my opinion it should not be there, and I've put request to our Engineering team for removal some time ago. Interestingly, all blog posts are indexed and got decent amount of organic traffic despite the tag.
What do you think? Could it be that Google would disregard the tag based on usage data from let's say GA?
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Early 2018 update to Google Search Console will now tell you if it's overridden a page with a different canonical:
Google chose different canonical than user: This URL is marked as canonical for a set of pages, but Google thinks another URL makes a better canonical. Because we consider this page a duplicate, we did not index it; only the canonical page is indexed. We recommend that you explicitly mark this page as a duplicate of the canonical URL. To learn which page is the canonical, click the table row to run an info: query for this URL, which should list its canonical page.
support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203
It is definitely possible. Here is a source from Google Webmaster Central blog:
the canonical designation might be disregarded by search engines
webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html
(Also note that Google has stated categorically that GA does not factor into any Google rankings.)
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