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7 Canonical Tag Mistakes That Quietly Drain Crawl Budget and Authority (and How to Fix Them)

Audits across more than 1,000 brand websites consistently rank rel canonical misconfiguration among the top 10 technical SEO issues that erode rankings. These errors fragment link equity, waste crawl budget on duplicate URLs, and suppress pages from Google's index without any visible warning.

June 7, 2026

Session IDs and SEO: Why They Hurt Crawlability and How to Fix Them

Googlebot doesn't carry cookies between requests. When it hits a page on a site that falls back to URL-based session tracking, the server generates a fresh session ID and appends it to every link on the page. So /products/shoes becomes /products/shoes?

April 25, 2026