Changing the Canonical Tags for Your Site's Pages

Wix automatically creates a default canonical URL for all of your pages. You can change the canonical tag for a page in the Advanced SEO tab if you have multiple URLs that go to that page. The canonical tag tells search engines to index only this page and show it in search results for a given keyword or search phrase. 

If you have different URLs that load the same page on your site, search engines choose one URL and consider it the primary one. This is the only URL that appears in search results. Other URLs are treated as duplicates and receive less attention from search engines.

For example, you may have duplicate versions of a page if you apply tracking parameters to the end of a URL. The URLs below contain different parameters, but lead to the same page:

Changing the canonical tag for one of these pages lets search engines know that this is the page version they should index and show in search results. 

You can customize the default canonical tag of your page in the SEO Basics tab. This is the self-referencing canonical URL which we recommend not to change. 

2.  Click the Advanced SEO tab.

3.  Click Additional Tags.

4.  Click the More Actions    icon on canonical.

5.  Select Edit.

6.  Edit your tag under Tag Value.

7.  Click Apply.

You can remove a custom canonical tag if you need to restore the original canonical tag. It automatically reverts back to the default setting that Wix applies to every page of your site. 

2.  Click the Advanced SEO tab.

3.  Click Additional Tags.

4.  Click the More Actions   icon on canonical.

5.  Select Edit.

6.  Click Reset to Default.

7.  Click Apply.