Base href + relative link href for canonical link

[Nobody1611699043941]

I have a site that in the head section we specify a base href being the domain with a trailing slash and a canonical link href being the relative link to the domain.

<base <="" span="">href="http://www.domain.com/" />

href="link-to-page.html" rel="canonical" />

I know that Google recommends using an absolute path as a canonical link but is specifying a base href with a relative canonical link the same thing or is it still seen as duplicate content?

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

I would say it's not the best way to do it like that. I'm not entirely sure how google would react to this. There are couple way to check it. Basically, google bots are very similar to any other bot, so, you can use, let's say, a facebook debugger, or check your MOZ tools, see what they say. If those tools are saying there are errors, then google most likely will say the same.

Hope this helps.