<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nA smart question from Sweden, Anders has asked \u201cWill the new canonical tag help with issues where you by accident (stupid editors linking to wrong addresses) have indexed sites by IP address rather than hostname?\u201d<\/p>\nI\u2019ll have to double check, but that\u2019s the sort of thing that you\u2019ll be liked to able to do. You\u2019d like to take that IP address and put that over to the hostname. Now that I\u2019m thinking aloud, we might consider the\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 IP address different than the hostname, so we\u2019ll have to confirm on that. But I don\u2019t think it would hurt to go ahead and have that. And ideally that is the sort of thing where you don\u2019t want your IP address to show up, you want your hostname or domain name to show up instead. So I think that would be a nice thing to do. I\u2019m not sure whether we supported for IP addresses yet but I\u2019ll ask Yalcom, the guy that wrote and did the heavy lifting on this code and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A smart question from Sweden, Anders has asked \u201cWill the new canonical tag help with issues where you by accident (stupid editors linking to wrong addresses) have indexed sites by IP address rather than hostname?\u201d I\u2019ll have to double check, but that\u2019s the sort of thing that you\u2019ll be liked to able to do. You\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A smart question from Sweden, Anders has asked \u201cWill the new canonical tag help with issues where you by accident (stupid editors linking to wrong addresses) have indexed sites by IP address rather than hostname?\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll have to double check, but that\u2019s the sort of thing that you\u2019ll be liked to able to do. You\u2019d like to take that IP address and put that over to the hostname. Now that I\u2019m thinking aloud, we might consider the\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 IP address different than the hostname, so we\u2019ll have to confirm on that. But I don\u2019t think it would hurt to go ahead and have that. And ideally that is the sort of thing where you don\u2019t want your IP address to show up, you want your hostname or domain name to show up instead. So I think that would be a nice thing to do. I\u2019m not sure whether we supported for IP addresses yet but I\u2019ll ask Yalcom, the guy that wrote and did the heavy lifting on this code and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A smart question from Sweden, Anders has asked \u201cWill the new canonical tag help with issues where you by accident (stupid editors linking to wrong addresses) have indexed sites by IP address rather than hostname?\u201d I\u2019ll have to double check, but that\u2019s the sort of thing that you\u2019ll be liked to able to do. You\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}