SEO & Website Audit
Canonical URL Checker
A canonical pointing to the wrong URL silently redirects ranking signal away from the page you meant to rank. This reads the live tag.
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Fetches the live page and reads its <link rel="canonical"> tag.
How it works
- 1Enter a page URL
- 2We fetch the page and extract its canonical tag
- 3See whether it's self-referencing or points elsewhere
Who this is for
- Debugging why a page isn't ranking despite good content
- Auditing canonical tags across paginated or filtered pages
- Verifying a migration didn't leave stale canonicals in place
Frequently asked questions
- Is it a problem if a canonical points to a different URL?
- Not necessarily — that's the intended pattern for filtered, paginated or parameterised pages that should consolidate to a primary URL. It's a problem when it happens by accident.
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