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Content and growth

IndexNow vs canonical tag

Measured weekly since 2026-W25. 12 observations.

Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us

2026-W36

This week

AI Overview
Not showing
in 0 of 12 weeks
Sources cited
no overview to cite from
Organic results
9
returned on page one
Weekly churn
16%
of the top 10 changes each week
AI Overview, week by week
2026-W252026-W36
How much the top 10 moved

Google is not answering this query itself as of 2026-W36. The 9 results below are the whole page.

Page one

Organic results

#DomainTitleSitelinks
1towardsdatascience.comA practical guide to IndexNow vs canonical tag3
2reddit.comIndexNow vs canonical tag in 20263
3github.comIndexNow vs canonical tag | github docs2
4news.ycombinator.comA practical guide to IndexNow vs canonical tag
5dev.toIndexNow vs canonical tag | dev docs
6substack.comA practical guide to IndexNow vs canonical tag
7en.wikipedia.orgIndexNow vs canonical tag | en docs
8quora.comIndexNow vs canonical tag | quora docs
9capterra.comIndexNow vs canonical tag — capterra
Since 2026-W29

Position history

DomainW29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
towardsdatascience.com11111111
reddit.com22222222
github.com33333433
news.ycombinator.com54444344
dev.to45655555
substack.com66576666

A dot means the domain was not on page one that week. This is the part no live SERP checker can show you: it needs someone to have been measuring before you asked.

Blocks

Features on this page

AI Overview People Also Ask Related searches Knowledge panel Sitelinks

Filled means Google rendered the block for this query this week. AI Overview, People Also Ask, Related searches, Knowledge panel, Sitelinks — each has its own prevalence across all 4,185 queries.

API

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Every figure above comes from one call. This is that call — the same endpoint, the same parameters, run once a week.

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=IndexNow%20vs%20canonical%20tag&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

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