Adding a Canonical Link
A canonical link (rel = canonical element) helps to define a "preferred" page version if certain pages were duplicated. In this case search engines will only crawl and index the specified page version.
This tag is also useful if you have a single page accessible by multiple URLs, or different pages with similar content. In this case, Google sees these as duplicate versions of the same page. Google will choose one URL as the canonical version and crawl that, and all other URLs will be considered duplicate URLs and crawled less often. You can find more information about how a canonical link consolidates duplicate URLs in the guide in Google Help Center.
Important: SiteCliq automatically adds a canonical link to every site page — it leads to the current page URL. This article will suit you if you'd like to add a different canonical link, not matching to the default page URL.
Adding a canonical link
1. Open the site's editor and navigate to the pages menu in the toolbar:
2. Open the settings of the page you'd like to define as a "preferred" one by clicking on the "gear", proceed to the SEO tab and enter the canonical link for this page in the field:
Important: the changes may not be reflected in the search engines immediately. It may take up to 3-14 days for them to crawl the site and add it to their index. To speed up the process, add the site to the Google Search Console and request indexing.
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