Do links to non-canonical URLs pass any value to the canonical version?

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Stav Zilbershtein from Israel asks: "Hi Matt, what if there are external links to a URL that is not the canonical one? Does the power of links passes on to the original URL or does links pointing to a non orinigal URL gets lost when using canonical tag on a website?"



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