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Editor's pickLearn how Google handles trailing slashes, www, protocols, and query strings, and when to use redirects, canonical tags, or consistent internal links.
Decide which ecommerce filter URLs deserve indexing, and learn when to use canonical tags, noindex, robots.txt, and internal links.
Learn why Google may index an unexpected URL and how to troubleshoot canonical tags, query parameters, redirects, and conflicting site signals.
Learn how to trace redirect chains, diagnose redirect loops, and update URL rules, internal links, and site configuration to reach the right page directly.
Learn why Google may index an unexpected URL and how to troubleshoot canonical tags, duplicate pages, parameters, redirects, internal links, and sitemaps.
Learn how to fix redirect chains by tracing each hop, finding loops, simplifying rules, and checking HTTP status codes, canonical URLs, and server layers.