Does Canonical Tag passes link juice to the original URL?

[Ramendra.Singh]

We are using Canonical tags at almost all the pages of our eCommerce website. We have various sorting options like "High to Low", "Best Sellers", etc., due to this page URLs get change with some dynamic URL parameters. To avoid duplicity, we are using canonical tag on each page which point to the original url.

Also, we are using IBM Coremetrics to track traffic and conversions, but to measure referral traffic in Coremetrics, we have to add tracking parameters in the URL. So, while link building we need to share URLs with Coremetrics tracking parameters in the URL, but the canonical of this page is pointing to the original URL.

Suppose we have a Page that needs to be shared with Coremetrics tag: domain.com/category-name/?cm_mmc=Referral_-xyz--izUPF8VmRng--3

This Page has the canonical tag pointing to the original url: domain.com/category-name/

My question is if the URL: domain.com/category-name?cm_mmc=Referral_-xyz--izUPF8VmRng--3 got shared on other websites, will it pass link juice to the original URL: domain.com/category-name.

[Alarm_Frank]

Can't use a canonical tag if the canonicalized page doesn't resemble the page I want to send link juice to? Why not?

[benesmartin]

Hey there,

The short answer is Yes.

However, if the pages are not alike, the tag shouldn't be used then. But anyway, it's not the case here.

Cheers, Martin