Canonical URL
A canonical URL is the one address a page declares as its main version, with a link rel="canonical" tag, so search engines combine duplicates under it.
How Xodia sets canonical URLs on every page: your AI's SEO skill gives each page a canonical link built from your site's one address, and each CMS item page points its canonical at its own address. With Advanced SEO you can set a page's canonical by hand in its settings, and once a site on Xodia hosting has a custom domain, its xodia.site address redirects there.
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What it is
The same page can often be reached at several addresses: with and without a trailing slash, with tracking parameters, or on a staging host. Without a canonical, search engines may split ranking signals between them or show the wrong one.
Each page should point its canonical at itself, at its preferred address, unless it truly is a copy of another page. Canonicals are a hint, not an order, so they work best alongside redirects and consistent internal links.
In Xodia
A page's settings sheet in the Pages panel has a Canonical address field next to the title tag and meta description, on Xodia template sites. Your AI's SEO skills give every page a proper canonical when they build it.
The link check also flags internal links that go through a redirect, so links point at the canonical address directly.
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Related terms
- Structured dataStructured data is machine-readable information about a page, usually JSON-LD in the schema.org vocabulary, that tells search engines and AI tools what the page is about.
- Anchor textAnchor text is the visible, clickable words of a link, which tell readers and search engines what the linked page is about.
- SitemapA sitemap is a map of a website's pages: for planning, a tree of pages and how they nest; for search engines, an XML file that lists every page a crawler should find.