IP Canonicalization - Is this needed?
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Hi
Wondering if we need to worry about IP Canonicalization via htaccess and if this is really required? and does would it have a big impact?
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Hi there.
No, IP canonicalization doesn't make any difference, due to the way of how dns works. Even if you do this type of canonicalization, your website still will have that ip, it's kinda like a pointer. Kinda like geo coordinates vs address. It's the same place, and even if you rename the street, you still have the same coordinates.
Read this here, it might help: https://moz.com/community/q/how-to-do-ip-canonicalization
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