Is the Canonical URL the same as my Default host URL?

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#1

I have a site archiboo.com and www.archiboo.com with the default being set to www.archiboo.com, should I ask Webflow to set the canonical site to: “https://www.archiboo.com”?

Thanks in advance,
John

#2

Hey @JohnO :wave:

I would recommend setting your Global Canonical Tag URL to the same as your default domain. When Webflow automatically generates a Sitemap it uses the default domain in the URLs for the Sitemap.

Setting your Global Canonical Tag URL to the same will make your sitemap and canonical URLs all the same and consistent.

Side note, make sure you DO NOT include a trailing / at the end of your canonical tag url. This will cause all sorts of problems :+1:

#3

Is it possible to change the canonical URL of a specific page when the global canonical tag is set…
Any other way to get this sorted…

For example:- https://www.example.com/abc has canonical tag as set by the global canonical tag url is https://www.example.com/abc. But, I need to change it to something like https://www.example.com/xyz

P.S:- It’s not a CMS collection page, it’s a static page.

#4

Hey @Ashish_Mishra in cases like that you would be better off to not use the Global Canonical Tag URL and manually add Canonical tags to pages. :+1: