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title: "How can I instruct the Web Governance scan to ignore canonical URLs?"
date: "2025-01-31T13:22:19+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to configure Web Governance scans to ignore canonical URLs with our step-by-step guide for website administrators."
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A canonical URL is the URL of the page that Google determines is most representative, taken from a set of duplicate pages on the website.

1.  Navigate to the _Domain Overview_ page.
2.  Click **Action** on the same row as the domain that you want to activate the _Ignore canonical URLs_ functionality on and select **Edit Domain** from the expanded list of options.
    
    The system displays the _Edit domain_ page.
    
3.  Locate the _Crawl Options_ section.
4.  Toggle the **Ignore canonical URLs** switch **ON**. 
    
    This causes the scan to disregard canonical URLs.