Monday, October 5, 2020

Should highly similar pages with different function be made canonical?

I run a site where users can resize images in different ways. For example, scale by 50% or target a file size of 100 kb, etc.

One of the features of the site is that URL parameters can be used to configure a preset that will be automatically applied. The page reflects this by showing a summary of the preset, but are otherwise the same as each other.

So my question is, should all presets have their own canonical URL, or is it better to point them all at a single URL?

On the one hand they do serve different purposes, but those purposes seem so specific and there's so many combinations that I doubt it would make sense to have them all indexed independently of each other.

At the moment, the pages don't set any canonical URLs, but I've noticed some of the presets getting picked up in Google and it looks a bit silly to me since it could combinatorially explode.

There's also potentially a hybrid approach where I could canonicalize presets that have broad appeal. For example, scale by X% & convert to JPEG could just converge on a preset for converting to JPEG.

Would appreciate some opinions on what the best practice is for this type of situation.

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