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Google Makes Minor Updates to Canonicalization Help Documentation

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Google refreshed its canonicalization help docs to improve readability without apparent functional changes to ranking or crawling behavior.

SERoundtable reports that Google has updated its canonicalization help documentation, including its core pages on what canonicalization is and how to fix canonicalization issues. The changes appear to be primarily editorial — aimed at making the guidance clearer and easier to follow — rather than signaling new technical requirements or algorithm shifts.
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