{"id":11614,"date":"2026-07-15T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:42:01","slug":"google-reaffirms-include-canonical-on-canonical-page-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11614","title":{"rendered":"Google Reaffirms Include Canonical On Canonical Page Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-self-lasers-5CrQ66N8.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Self Lasers\" title=\"Google Reaffirms Include Canonical On Canonical Page Itself\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google has updated its canonical help document to say &#8220;Do include a rel=&#8221;canonical&#8221; link on the canonical page itself (also known as a self-referential canonical).&#8221; The advice is not new to Google&#8217;s communication but it was just added to the help document.<\/p> <p>So Google added two lines to this document, they include:<\/p> <ul> <li>Do include a rel=&#8221;canonical&#8221; link on the canonical page itself (also known as a self-referential canonical).<\/li> <li>We recommend adding this same self-referential rel=&#8221;canonical&#8221; link element to the canonical page itself as well.<\/li> <\/ul> <p>So on this page, this is the self-referential canonical in the source code:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/self-referential-canonical-example-GnonaDAM.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Self Referential Canonical Example\" title=\"Google Reaffirms Include Canonical On Canonical Page Itself\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Like I said, this is not new advice. Google&#8217;s John Mueller said in 2011 that self-referential canonicals help keep things clean. <\/p> <p>Those seem to be the only two lines added or updated in that document.<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Reaffirms #Include #Canonical #Canonical #Page1784047321<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its canonical help document to say &#8220;Do include a rel=&#8221;canonical&#8221; link on the canonical page itself (also known as a self-referential canonical).&#8221; The advice is not new to Google&#8217;s communication but it was just added to the help document. So Google added two lines to this document, they include: Do include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11000,75,23027,212,46209],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-canonical","tag-google","tag-include","tag-page","tag-reaffirms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}