Google Indexing a Changed URL

Marketing
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I changed a URL on a website to be more specific. I have submitted an updated sitemap but Google will not index this url becaus, claiming it is a duplicate. How can I fix this issue?

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If the old URL no longer exists, and you’ve updated your internal links, then I would expect Google to update its indexing - eventually.

You could try adding a canonical tag, but I don’t know how much that would help, if it’s not actually a duplicate page.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls

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May be the problem is that I have to many links going to the old url. I have redirected some of them and changed others. I use Wix and they have a canonical tag for this url but it basically just has the url name in it

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If you can, you should setup the old URL to issue a 301 redirect to the new URL. This will tell google that the page has moved to the new URL whenever it tries to crawl the old URL.

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I have a lot of redirects including one from the old url to the new url. However, the redirect did not include caps. I changed it to include capital letters. This minor change may not be the issue but in the system that I am using if you use caps, you get a 404 message

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First of all, you should check your URLs to ensure that none of them are duplicates. Second, add your URL to the Canonical Tag. Third, check your sitemap and update your links.

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That makes no sense at all. How can you have two URLs the same?

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