diff --git a/config/locales/server.en.yml b/config/locales/server.en.yml
index d0af9b7136b..2b94222d741 100644
--- a/config/locales/server.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/server.en.yml
@@ -2057,6 +2057,7 @@ en:
 
     embed_any_origin: "Allow embeddable content regardless of origin. This is required for mobile apps with static HTML."
     embed_topics_list: "Support HTML embedding of topics lists"
+    embed_set_canonical_url: "Set the canonical URL for embeded topics to the embeded content's URL."
     embed_truncate: "Truncate the embedded posts."
     embed_support_markdown: "Support Markdown formatting for embedded posts."
     embed_whitelist_selector: "A comma separated list of CSS elements that are allowed in embeds."
diff --git a/config/site_settings.yml b/config/site_settings.yml
index d42c7f7b0bc..42acc80a844 100644
--- a/config/site_settings.yml
+++ b/config/site_settings.yml
@@ -880,6 +880,7 @@ posting:
       - code-fences
   embed_any_origin: false
   embed_topics_list: false
+  embed_set_canonical_url: false
   embed_truncate:
     default: true
   embed_support_markdown:
diff --git a/lib/topic_view.rb b/lib/topic_view.rb
index 31c6729ac0b..62f953b6fd5 100644
--- a/lib/topic_view.rb
+++ b/lib/topic_view.rb
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ class TopicView
   end
 
   def canonical_path
+    if SiteSetting.embed_set_canonical_url
+      topic_embed = topic.topic_embed
+      return topic_embed.embed_url if topic_embed
+    end
     path = relative_url.dup
     path <<
       if @page > 1
diff --git a/spec/requests/topics_controller_spec.rb b/spec/requests/topics_controller_spec.rb
index 3394894737a..bb570a8674b 100644
--- a/spec/requests/topics_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/topics_controller_spec.rb
@@ -3072,6 +3072,22 @@ RSpec.describe TopicsController do
         expect(body).to include('<link rel="prev" href="' + topic.relative_url + "?page=2")
       end
 
+      context "canonical_url" do
+        fab!(:topic_embed) { Fabricate(:topic_embed, embed_url: "https://markvanlan.com") }
+        let(:user_agent) { "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" }
+
+        it "set to topic.url when embed_set_canonical_url is false" do
+          get topic_embed.topic.url, env: { "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => user_agent }
+          expect(response.body).to include('<link rel="canonical" href="' + topic_embed.topic.url)
+        end
+
+        it "set to topic_embed.embed_url when embed_set_canonical_url is true" do
+          SiteSetting.embed_set_canonical_url = true
+          get topic_embed.topic.url, env: { "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => user_agent }
+          expect(response.body).to include('<link rel="canonical" href="' + topic_embed.embed_url)
+        end
+      end
+
       context "wayback machine" do
         it "renders crawler layout" do
           get topic.url, env: { "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36", "HTTP_VIA" => "HTTP/1.0 web.archive.org (Wayback Save Page)" }