SEO for a small site
Primary keyword: duplicate URL checklist SEO · Intent: informational · One URL, one query. Not a city doorway.
HTTP, www, a trailing slash, and a tracking query can look like four sites. Pick one.
This article is written for people searching duplicate URL checklist SEO (informational intent). It is not a city doorway and not a ranking package. Product facts we will defend: Free is live on you.bizzit.io after Google sign-in, 50 Cipher turns, no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month. First-year domain names bought here carry a 25% markup. We do not invent competitor prices or statistics.
Google clusters duplicates. Your canonical is a hint. Clean copies still beat a tag that points at a messy stack of 200s. bizzit.io prefers apex. www should not 200 as a second copy of the same marketing site. UTM belongs on ads and GBP clicks, not as indexable clones. Canonicalize to the clean path. Print versions and uppercase paths are extra copies you do not need on a five-page site. A custom domain on Pro must not 200 beside the slug as two indexable shops unless you meant a move and mapped it.
Pick one HTTPS hostname and one path shape for each Bizzit page. Redirect the rest. Put that URL in the canonical, the sitemap, and internal links. Do not index UTM copies. Free is you.bizzit.io. Pro is $12 a month for the name on the door.
The pass
- List HTTP vs HTTPS
- List www vs apex
- List slash vs no slash
- List UTM and sort queries
- Confirm only one 200 per page
- Match canonical to that 200
- Match sitemap and internal links
Parameters
utm_source is analytics, not a page. session IDs in URLs are a crawl trap. Do not mint sort URLs for three products. Internal search results should not become thousands of indexable pages.
Two hosts
Slug and custom domain during a move need a plan. Do not leave both 200 with identical shops forever. GBP website field gets the one you want found. Pro is when the name is live.
Canonical
Absolute HTTPS. Returns 200. Not a redirect. Matches og:url.
What not to do
A printer stylesheet as a second URL. Uppercase clones. City parameters. Doorways.
Tools
Canonical builder writes a tag. It will not merge two live hosts for you. Redirect map is for old to new paths. Use both when the move is real.
Limits and caveats
Google may still pick a different canonical if the copies are messy. Clean the copies.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here. That is how this library stays useful instead of becoming spun SERP copies.
What Bizzit will and will not do
You describe the business. Cipher builds a site. You preview it. You publish on a Bizzit hostname for free after Google sign-in. Free includes 50 Cipher turns with no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month for unlimited Cipher edits, a custom domain, overnight jobs from the brief, checkout on your payment account, no Bizzit badge. Domain names you buy here show a first-year price with a 25% markup on the registrar wholesale. We do not take a cut of your sales. We are not a CRM, a dispatcher, or a review factory. If a sentence would require us to pretend we shipped a feature we have not shipped, it does not belong on this page.
Cost: the slug is free. The name is $12 a month plus the domain.
Stay on you.bizzit.io until the page is doing work. Twelve months of Pro is $144. The registrar line is separate. Cancel Pro from the account if the month is dead; the domain you bought is still yours to keep or let lapse. Read pricing and cancel anytime before you treat $12 as a personality.
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.
Primary keyword for this page: duplicate URL checklist SEO. That is the query we wrote for. Related links below are neighboring intents, not doorway clones.
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.
Primary sources
Questions people actually ask
Should every page have a canonical?
Indexable pages should. Point it at themselves unless they are true copies.
Is UTM always bad?
On ads, fine. As a second indexed URL, no. Canonicalize to the clean path.
www?
On bizzit.io we prefer the apex. Do not run both as 200 equals.
Pro?
Connecting a domain is Pro at $12 a month. Then pick that host as the public one when it 200s.
Fragments?
URL hashes are not separate pages. Do not treat #about as a ranking URL.