Canonical URLs: How Does Google Pick the One?

Name: Canonical URLs: How Does Google Pick the One?
Uploaded: 2019-09-04
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Channel: Google Search Central

Google Search Central · 150K views · 2019 · 3:53

Open on YouTube

other

Why the open web links it

Explains how Google selects a canonical URL from similar or duplicate pages.

Linked by 24 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ahrefs.com, searchenginejournal.com, kinsta.com, sitechecker.pro, ssw.com.au.