Are there any hidden pitfalls mentioned in canonical tags best practices that could accidentally cause my entire website to disappear from Google search results?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Are there any hidden pitfalls mentioned in canonical tags best practices that could accidentally cause my entire website to disappear from Google search results?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
Google Search Central canonicalization best practices canonical tag mistakes sitewide canonical noindex robots.txtGoogle ↗
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 canonicalization best practices canonical tag mistakes sitewide canonical noindex robots.txt Google ↗
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