Google Has 40 Signals For Canonicalization In Google Search – Search Engine Roundtable
Did you know that Google uses around 40 different signals to perform canonicalization in Google Search? This not only includes numerous type of redirects, the rel canonical attribute but also things like x-default, sitemaps, links, PageRank and other signals.
Google did not list all the signals but said the most important signals used for canonicalization are redirects, rel-canonical attributes and maybe x-default. There was this signal named “Redirect to Shorter” that Google killed off recently, as well.
This came up in the excellent Search Off The Record interview of Allan Scott from the Google Search team, who works specifically on duplication within Google Search. Martin Splitt and John Mueller from Google interviewed Allan.
Allan said at the 3:45 minute mark into the interview, “I’m not sure what the exact number is right now because it goes up and down, but I suspect it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 40.”
John then joked, “Okay. Well, now our listeners will be making…
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