Google follows the links in a non-canonical page?

[Josuah]

If you have two different pages and you put a canonical tag from one to another, does Google follow the links on the non-canonical one?

Once the page is tagged with the canonical, which is the treatment of that page? from that momment, Google just reads the head to see if the canonical is still there? what do you think?

Thanks.

[Planet13]

...does Google follow the links on the non-canonical one?

I am sure it would FOLLOW the links on the non-canonical page. google likes to discover as many links as it can.

I don't know how much page rank it will give to links FROM the non-canonical page if those links are not also on the canonical page.

Once the page is tagged with the canonical, which is the treatment of that page? from that momment, Google just reads the head to see if the canonical is still there? what do you think?

No, I think they would read the whole page.

Remember, even though you stick a canonical link tag on page B saying that the canonical page is actually page A, that doesn't mean that google won't still index page B - especially if you have other links on Page B that AREN'T on page A.

[graeme_p]

I am not sure if I am up to date, but, in the past Google has said that the canonical tag is a "strong hint": so they may just ignore it if they think the pages are not close enough to identical.

[Josuah]

OK thanks, it makes sense to be as you said, could be interesting to do some test to confirm it.