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www and the apex are two names. Pick one. Canonical it. Redirect the other.

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Canonical URLs on a small site: one preferred address | Bizzit guide

Duplicate hosts waste crawl and split signals. Small sites should pick www or apex, 301 the other, and put that URL on GBP and paper. Someone whose site answers on both names with 200. Parameters should not create a second indexable copy.

Choose one public hostname. Canonical every page to it. Redirect the other host. On Bizzit Pro the custom name is $12 a month. Do not index preview or Create.

Who this is for

Someone whose site answers on both names with 200. If that is not you, a different Bizzit guide will fit better, do not force this URL.

The actual answer

Duplicate hosts waste crawl and split signals. Small sites should pick www or apex, 301 the other, and put that URL on GBP and paper. The short version is still the one in the box at the top of this page. The rest of the article exists so you do not have to guess the limits.

Do this in order

Follow the steps. Skip the ones that are not your job. Do not add extra tools as if they were required SKUs.

  1. Pick www or apex
  2. Point DNS
  3. Redirect the loser
  4. Use that URL in GBP and print

What not to do

Do not leave both 200. Do not canonical to an irrelevant page. That is the usual way a useful page turns into a doorway, a fake comparison, or a brief Cipher cannot honor.

How this shows up on Bizzit

Create is where you brief Cipher. Pricing is public. Tools are public pages that do a job, they are not a second SKU you must buy.

Limits

Do not leave both 200. Do not canonical to an irrelevant page.

Limits and caveats

Do not leave both 200. Do not canonical to an irrelevant page.

If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.

What to do after you read this

If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or SEO for a small site. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.

Tools that actually do this job

These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.

Questions people actually ask

Does Cipher set canonicals on tenant sites?

Generated sites should have a canonical. If a preview is wrong, rebuild. Marketing pages on bizzit.io already canonical to https://bizzit.io/...

UTM?

Canonical to the clean URL.

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