About CNAME records A Canonical Name or CNAME record is a type of DNS record that maps an alias name to a true or canonical domain name. CNAME records are typically used to map a subdomain such as www or mail to the domain hosting that subdomain’s content.
A canonical URL is the URL of the best representative page from a group of duplicate pages, according to Google. For example, if you have two URLs for the same page (such as example.com?dres
A: Confusingly the 'Search Performance' report in the console is only reporting the (Google chosen) canonical for each page. So even if a user saw a 'localized' URL in search results, and clicked it (ie where taken to their local version!) - the console report will still record it as activity against the canonical version. So the URL shown in search result, DOESN'T match the URl shown in the ...
Recently a lot pages from our website are detected as "Duplicate without user-selected canonical". The referring page though are not from our website. How to fix this? Thanks in advance.
Using canonical tag to manage duplicate content across multiple similar websites We are developing websites for multiple organisations that will contain lots of overlapping and duplicate content across different domains.
Any issues on the irrelevant, old, non-canonical and bogus URLs are not important, so it can be hidden to concentrate on issues on the actual 'good' Page URLs. For example a URL that has been deliberately blocked with 'noindex', so you shouldnt have it in sitemap.