Always follow canonicals

Dan Sharp

Posted 19 September, 2018 by in

Always follow canonicals

Configuration > Spider > Advanced > Always Follow Canonicals

This feature allows the SEO Spider to follow canonicals until the final redirect target URL in list mode, ignoring crawl depth. This is particularly useful for site migrations, where canonicals might be canonicalised multiple times, before they reach their final destination.

To view the chain of canonicals, we recommend enabling this configuration and using the ‘canonical chains‘ report.

Please see our guide on ‘How To Use List Mode‘ for more information on how this configuration can be utilised like ‘always follow redirects’.

Dan Sharp is founder & Director of Screaming Frog. He has developed search strategies for a variety of clients from international brands to small and medium-sized businesses and designed and managed the build of the innovative SEO Spider software.

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