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I have been advised by our SEO company that every product on our website is missing the website domain from the canonical rel tag. In their opinion, this is not good for the ranking of the website and on questioning it, we are advised this is a feature of CL websites and on checking a number of sites, i can see that this is the case.
We have been told raise this point on Canny so here I am raising it. Is there a reason why it is like this?
Neil McQuillan
This is live and in production and working as I would expect on product pages (which was the placed the domain was missing)
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Neil McQuillan
The code is written now and will get reviewed and tested. All being well this will be in the July ecommerce release.
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Neil McQuillan
We're going to address this.
Shirin Sadr
Neil McQuillan Thanks for the update Neil
Neil McQuillan
All that said I think this idea has some merit so I'll look into it further.
Neil McQuillan
It was the advice from another SEO consultancy.
Unless the content is duplicated across multiple domains I can’t see why it would matter to Google. Eg if you have the same content on two domains it would matter, as you want to say which is canon ( the source of truth ) but that two domain structure would be bad, you’d want the less important domain 301’ing to the master domain. I cannot see why an ecommerce site would run on two domains.
Shirin Sadr
Neil McQuillan: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls?sjid=7305515116373086142-EU#:~:text=Use%20absolute%20paths,element%20properly. Google's advice is to use absolute URLs as best practice. I think that is mostly the point being made if I'm understanding the post correctly?
Shirin Sadr
Neil McQuillan Any update on this in the roadmap?