Google Docs: Do Not Specify A Fragment URL As Canonical

Sep 4, 2024 - 7:41 am 2 by

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Google has updated its search developer canonical documentation to specify that you should not set specify a fragment URL as canonical. Google added that bullet point to the best practices section of the document.

The bullet point added was, "Don't specify a fragment URL as canonical, as Google generally doesn't support fragment URLs."

I mean, this should be obvious for most SEOs by now but I guess Google wanted to make it clearer.

Here is the line that was added:

Google Fragment Url Canonical

Nice find by Dave Smart who posted about it on LinkedIn. Dave Smart wrote, "An edge case for sure, but good to know!"

Forum discussion at LinkedIn.

 

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