Gary Illyes from from the Google Search Relations team posted another PSA on LinkedIn, this one says “don’t use relative paths in your rel-canonical.” Gary wants you to use the full, absolute URL, when it coms to rel-canonical.
Here is his post:
This is not new advice, Google said this in 2018 and in 2013 – but that is why this is a PSA from Google.
So much so, John Mueller from Google also shared what Gary wrote on Twitter:
Canonicals and relative URLs, what's up with that? Find out more at https://t.co/gJenmsuFv6 from your friendly neighborhood house elf.
— John Mueller is watching out for Google+ 🐀 (@JohnMu) January 30, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
John explained why, is the why is not obvious to you, John said, “One of the problems is that it’s relative to where the content was found. www or non-www? http or https? staging subdomain? staging domain? random other domain that’s hosted by the same company? If you want to pick something specific, it’s good to be specific.”
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