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Can rel="canonical" index my hostname and not my IP address?

 
 

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Question: “Can rel=”canonical” index my hostname and not my IP address?”

Answer: While this Answer still needs confirmation, it is the sort of thing that you should be able to do with rel=”canonical”.
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A smart question from Sweden. Anders asks: “Will the new canonical tag help with issues where, by accident (stupid editors linking to the wrong addresses), you've indexed by the IP address rather than the hostname?

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I'll have to double check, but that is the sort of thing that you'd like to be able to do. You like to take your IP address and put that over to the hostname.

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Now that I'm thinking aloud, we might consider the IP address different than the hostname so we'll have to confirm on that. But I don't think it would hurt to go ahead and have that. And ideally that is the sort of thing where you don't want your IP address to show up, you want you host- or your domain-name to show up instead.

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So I think that would be a nice thing to do. I'm not sure whether we support it for IP addresses yet, but I'll ask Yakum, the guy that wrote and did the heavy lifting on this code and see what happens.