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    • hermanok
      hermanok last edited by

      Hello!

      I am a little confused concerning canonical links. I have several URLs that all access my page, but I redirect them all. A lot of places I am told to redirect them or use canonicals. Other places, I read that I should always use canonicals. What is the right way for me? If I should use canonicals as well as redirects, which links should I do this on? I redirect my pages like this:

      http to https:
      http://example.com -> https://example.com

      www to non-www:
      https://www.example.com -> https://example.com

      Remove trailing slashes
      https://example.com/ -> https://example.com

      Would-be 404-requests to index.php?p=$1
      https://example.com/home -> https://example.com/index.php?p=home ( show as https://example.com/home )

      Example:
      http://www.example.com/home/ -> http://www.example.com/home/ -> https://example.com/home/ -> https://example.com/home -> https://example.com/index.php?p=home ( shows as https://example.com/home )

      Thank you!

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      • Martijn_Scheijbeler
        Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

        It seems that in all your cases you should indeed be redirecting them. Only if a page is really using duplicate content then you're going to need a canonical tag.

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        • hermanok
          hermanok @Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

          Ok, thank you!

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