Can I use a single page as the canonical of many image galleries that Google...

salon_sue

I am a hobbyist who is building a website to showcase a wedding photographer's portfolio. On the portfolio site, e.g www.example.com/portfolio , all the individual wedding galleries are listed and linked to. It serves as a hub to reach several (20+) individual image galleries. The website is rather new and does not have many external links pointing to it, so I assume it has rather low domain authority. The problem I am facing is that google did...

Originally asked by S. G. on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Answering my own question. Yes, in my case it is feasible to use the portfolio site as the canonical page in all individual gallery sites. I first attempted getting individual pages indexed, but failed. So I set the canonical url of each individual gallery to the portfolio/overview site, and I also added some short descriptions there. Now either the portfolio/overview or the individual site (not sure why) is often on the first page of search results when searching wedding [location] .

Full answer by S. G.: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/141257 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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