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Fix Notion Site Links: Canonical URLs for Bullet & Super
Stop internal links from pointing to notion.site URLs. Audit and fix links, use canonical redirects, and prevent broken links with templates.
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Primary keyword: bullet notion site canonical urls
The problem: Notion-site URLs break internal linking
If your site is built on Notion but published through a layer like Bullet or Super, it’s easy for internal links to accidentally point to the raw Notion site domain (for example,
*.notion.site). Those links can:
- send visitors to the wrong domain (or an unpublished Notion page)
- bypass your navigation and analytics setup
- dilute SEO signals by splitting authority across multiple hostnames
The fix is straightforward: make every internal link resolve to your canonical domain (your real website domain), not the Notion-powered source domain.
What “canonical” means for a Notion-based website
A canonical URL is the version of a page URL you want search engines (and humans) to treat as the primary one.
If you publish through Bullet/Super, your canonical is typically your real site domain (example:
https://connex.digital/...) and not the underlying Notion share/publish URL.Step 1: Define your canonical URL rules (write these down)
Before you touch links, decide what “correct” looks like.
Common rules:
- The canonical domain is your marketing domain (example:
https://connex.digital). - Every page has exactly one canonical URL format (trailing slash or not, consistent casing, etc.).
- Any non-canonical hostnames should redirect to canonical.
Step 2: Audit your current internal links (quick + thorough options)
Quick audit (good for small sites)
- Export or crawl your site (or just sample 20–50 pages).
- Search for
notion.site,notion.so, and other non-canonical domains. - Record where they appear (page URL + the link destination).
Thorough audit (better for growing sites)
- Use a crawler (or a scripted audit) to list every link on your site.
- Filter for any link destinations that don’t start with your canonical domain.
Step 3: Fix links in the source of truth
Where bad links usually come from:
- copied text (especially when someone copies from Notion itself)
- old templates
- database properties that generate URLs (formula fields)
- “find and replace” actions that only partially updated URLs
Fixes that usually work:
- Replace the link target with the canonical URL.
- If you use database-generated links, update the formula so the output is canonical.
- If the page is built from a template, fix the template and re-apply where needed.
Step 4: Add (or confirm) redirects for non-canonical domains
Even with perfect internal links, you’ll still get:
- old links from Slack, email, or bookmarks
- links that were indexed before the fix
Make sure your publishing layer redirects non-canonical URLs to canonical ones. This is the safety net that prevents one-off mistakes from becoming long-term SEO problems.
Step 5: Prevent the problem from coming back (the real win)
Use prevention mechanisms so you don’t have to do this audit every month.
Prevention checklist
- Standardize templates so internal links are always canonical.
- Store canonical URLs in one place (database property), and link to that.
- If you have “URL” formulas, make sure they always output canonical URLs.
- Train the team to avoid copying Notion “Share” links into web copy.
Example: how to link internally without leaking Notion URLs
If you mention Notion in your post/site, link it to your canonical app page, not the Notion share URL.
Example: Notion
If you mention productivity automation as a related concept, link it to the canonical hub page:
Example: Productivity automation
QA: final scan before you ship
Before you consider the fix done:
- Search the updated pages for
notion.siteandnotion.so. - Click-test links in the published site (not only inside Notion).
- Confirm redirects work for at least 3 sample non-canonical URLs.
- Re-run your audit after 7–14 days to confirm the issue stays at zero.
Get help cleaning up your Notion site links
Canonical URL issues on Notion-based sites usually hide in database formula fields and old templates — the manual audit finds some, but the formula audit finds the rest. If you're running on Bullet or Super and want this done right the first time, book a ZoomFlow session — we'll walk through your site's link structure live and fix the source-of-truth in one call.
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