How do canonical tags affect the transfer of PageRank and historical link equity when consolidating two nearly identical blog posts?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
How do canonical tags affect the transfer of PageRank and historical link equity when consolidating two nearly identical blog posts?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
Google Search Central canonical URLs duplicate pages canonical redirects link signals PageRank consolidation historical backlinksGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
Google Search Central canonical URLs duplicate pages canonical redirects link signals PageRank consolidation historical backlinks Google ↗