Worth knowing
A canonical is a strong hint, not a redirect.
For a normal unique page, a clean self-referencing canonical is usually easiest to maintain. Use cross-page canonicals deliberately.
Website & SEO
Find the rel=canonical tag, resolve relative URLs and flag missing or multiple canonical declarations.
Free to run. No account. Public URL checks are fetched only to return the result.
The annoying bit
Canonicals are invisible until they are wrong. A copied template or old domain can quietly point an otherwise healthy page somewhere else.
Worth knowing
For a normal unique page, a clean self-referencing canonical is usually easiest to maintain. Use cross-page canonicals deliberately.
Next little job
Titles, redirects, canonicals, robots, sitemaps and schema all live in the same focused category.
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