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Canonical Domains

The canonical domain is the version of the domain which has been set as the preferred version for indexing. This helps to combat the issues of duplicate content and inform search engines of the domain you would like to be indexed. Our Hangout Notes cover examples and recommendations from Google for correctly setting and handling canonical domains.

URL Removal Tool Affects All Domain Variations

If you use the URL removal tool, it will also remove all www/non-www and http/https versions of the URL. So the URL removal tool cannot be used to resolve problems with URLs on the wrong protocol.

19 May 2015

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