The Canonical is Broken

What is broken?

Google’s canonical system, specifically its previous ability to attribute and consolidate ranking signals to the canonical version of a page, is no longer providing the ability to correctly attribute jump links to the canonical.

This has a huge implication for your site in a Helpful Content environment. They may be separate factors but they intersect in a dangerous relationship.

This is my seo testing writeup - 17 pages but there are a lot of pictures.

• Introduction
• Hypothesis
• Implications
• Background
• Executive Summary
• Notes
• Field Data
• Take Away

You can name your own price. Proceeds go back into research activity. Want to make this information available to all.

#FixTheDamnCanonical

This search console based data test write-up is intended for educational purposes only for web owners to be able to determine their own course of action. Any methods applied or actions taken based on this information are performed at your own risk. The author is not responsible for any consequences, including, but not limited to, performance issues, data loss, or financial loss.