Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs. John said "we recommend doing that is ...

Google is reminding site owners that they shouldn’t add URLs that are being redirected in the sitemap they submit to Google. The question came up on Twitter about whether it should be avoided or if ...

Canonical tags are an essential tool to prevent duplicate content in organic search results. “Canonical” in search engine parlance means the one true page out of ...

Google's John Mueller said again on Twitter that you should only keep old URLs that have been redirected elsewhere in your XML sitemap file temporarily and not long term. John has said this a few ...

Canonicalization has been a core technical SEO practice for well over a decade, and it’s still one of the easiest things to get quietly wrong. The same content ends up at multiple URLs for ordinary ...

Websites sometimes have identical pages across two or more URLs. It presents a dilemma for search engines to know which page to prioritize in rankings. That’s the ...

Google’s John Mueller was asked about a technique designed to force Google and other search engines to crawl sitemaps every day. The person asking the question said they saw this in action on a large ...