- Class
- C4 Informational
- Weight
- 0
- Severity on fail
- info
- Applies to
- Any engine
Test this rule on a live site with the canonical tag checker. Free, no account needed.
Scope and evidence
Evaluated on fetched non-HTML URLs. The book marks this requirement SUPPORTED.
Observations
Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.
canonical_header{url} sends a Link: rel="canonical" header naming {target}, which is {absoluteness}.
Sources, quoted
These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.
Cited for context; no quote stored.
[G-CANON] How to specify a canonical URL with rel="canonical" and other methods · rel="canonical" HTTP header · last updated 2026-07-10
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls