What is difference between google selected canonical and user declared canonical
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Your declared canonical URL, if the page explicitly declares one. You can declare a canonical URL in several ways: a <link rel="canonical"> tag, an HTTP header, a sitemap, or a few other methods. If your page is one of a set of similar or duplicate pages, we recommend explic
The page that Google selected as the authoritative URL as soon as Google founds it is the similar or duplicate pages, in most cases Google will choose the same URL or Google might choose another URL which is considered as the best and better canonical of that page and no guarantee for the Google canonical for a URL but you can suggest one. If the page has no alternative versions the Google selected canonical is the inspected URL and if any you can consider explicitly declaring canonical version and it is not shown always in search results for example if the page has a desktop canonical and a mobile version and mobile searches will probably show the mobile page URL.
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A few possible reasons: If the "User-declared canonical" and "Google-selected canonical" values are different, this means that this URL is one of a set of similar pages, and Google has chosen to index another version of the same page