Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user after change of address

  • Resolved rrajuraj12

    (@rrajuraj12)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    hello, recently I changed my domain name example.org to expamle.co within 2 days I notices a lot of pages flagged with “Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user” Even my old site example.com pages were also removed from search results. some of them show https://prnt.sc/zdD86UxixZaO and some results show https://prnt.sc/RaQNa8UM4ZAu here .co is my new domain and .org is my old domain. while opening urs in browsers .org links redirecting to the .co site without issue. how to fix Duplicate, Google chose a different canonical than user after the change of address issues while moving old domain to the new domain (change of address). thank you very much.

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hello @rrajuraj12

    Thanks for reaching out about your page indexing report.

    According to Google’s Page Indexing report documentation, here is what Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user means:

    This page is marked as canonical for a set of pages, but Google thinks another URL makes a better canonical. Google has indexed the page that we consider canonical rather than this one.

    1. Inspect this URL to see the Google-selected canonical URL under Page indexing > Google-selected canonical.
    2. Look at the canonical you chose under Page indexing > User-declared canonical.
    3. In your browser, look at the current page, the user-declared canonical, and the Google-selected canonical.
    4. This error means that Google thinks that the tested page isn’t a duplicate of the user-declared canonical. Instead, Google thinks that the tested page is a duplicate of the Google-selected canonical.
      • If the Google-selected canonical is the tested page, then Google thinks that the tested page isn’t similar to any other pages.
      • If the user-declared canonical is not similar to the current page, then Google won’t ever choose that URL as canonical. A duplicate page must be similar to the canonical. (That’s what duplicate means.)

    If you have further questions regarding the indexing report, please post a question in the Google Search Central Help Community.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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