Glossary · Indexing and discovery

canonical

A declaration of which URL is the preferred version. A canonical pointing away from a page is a request not to index that page, and a sitemap declaring a URL whose canonical points elsewhere is a contradiction the site is publishing about itself.

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Indexing and discovery

Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.

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