Have you ever questioned “What will happen if we use both the Canonical and No-Index tag on the webpage?”.

To understand this, let me explain the two things:

  1. No-Index: It is a directive that must be obeyed by the Google.
  2. Canonical: It is an attribute that modifies the HTML element with additional information. It is a strong signal that can’t be ignored but the crawler may ignore it (and that’s why we may sometimes get the duplicate content indexing issue in GSC).

So, when we apply both of these attribute and tag on a webpage, then the webpage will not be indexed for sure but suppose anyother website has given a backlink to the webpage, it will be passed to the webpage’s canonical version. So, these two tags are applied when we want the link juice to page to the canonical webpage but not want to index it.