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is a keyword for the HTML attribute `rel` which allows specification of the preferred URL for web pages with duplicate content.

canonical is a HTML rel keyword to prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the preferred ("canonical") version of a web page URL. It is supported by Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines. It is described in RFC 6596.

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Is it possible with canonical URL for this pattern in htaccess: /a/*/id/uniqueid?

A big problem is that I am not a programmer….! So I need to solve this with means within my own competence… I would be very happy for help! I have an issue with a lot of duplicated URLs in the Google index and there are strong signs that it is…
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Make the Facebook crawler ignore the Canonical link

I wonder if there is a way to make the Facebook crawler ignore the canonical link on a page. I have a situation where the canonical link points to a different URL than the one that you are actually on. This results in that the og:image, og:url etc.…
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Wrong canonical URL in Facebook cache?

I have a like button on this page: http://magazin.skiinfo.de/kaestle This morning, I made a mistake and put in a wrong canonical URL. I deleted the canonical URL from the page, but the like…
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WordPress: Overwrite the canonical URL in YoastSEO

I'm using a snippet to overwrite the canonical URL in YoastSEO for WordPress/WooCommerce. The snippet is based on the official docs example: https://developer.yoast.com/features/seo-tags/canonical-urls/api/ Here's my code: function…
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Alternate page with proper canonical tag and duplicate URL part errors in Google search console report

I have a static blog site created with Nuxt and hosted on Netlify. For content, I am using markdown files and the new Content module in Nuxt. I used Nuxt and static content, along with vue-meta for SEO purposes, but after a couple months, my…
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The canonical link points to the site root error

I have a website that uses country-specific pages. So for every page, there is a country-specific URL. For example: example.com/au/blog, example.com/us/blog, example.com/uk/blog. This is great as we can show content more relevant to each…
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How to redirect the route with some id to human friendly url and handle canonical url in angular routes?

I have two url format example.com/posts/:postId and example.com/posts/:postId/:postTitle just like stack-overflow individual question url. In angular route I need to redirect all the urls with :postId to :postId/:PostTitle or directly loading the…
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Duplicate without user-selected canonical

We have a live website with URL e.g. abc.com but when the site fully loads, it gets redirected to abc.com/home. I indexed all the pages to google search console, under coverage it says, Duplicate without user-selected canonical and the page is not…
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How to make Canonicals with PHP

I've search around on SO, but can't find an exact answer to my needs. Generating a URL is pretty easy... Like so: But, the issue with this is, the…
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Domain root and index.html seen differently by search engines

I'm having difficulty fixing this problem: I ran an SEO test (on sitechecker.pro) on my portfolio, and it gave me this problem that I can't figure how to fix: Search engines see your http://gvdavidtran.com and http://gvdavidtran.com/index.html…
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Is it possible to detect :visited URL with canonical URL?

As title, I'm thinking of is it possible to tell browser that after user visited a page with URL https://example.com/somepath?q=somequery and with a canonical URL tag , then this link
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How to get/read the cleanest url into Meta Canonical via PHP?

Given: old ugly urls like /somepage?ln=en are rewritten in htaccess to /en/somepage Given: used canonical meta tag, with this php script above it to fill in the tidy url: How to make them like the canonical?
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Wordpress Redirecting Non Category Pages /page/nnn to their Canonical URLs

I seemingly to have a strange issue I have found in almost every other Wordpress site. Suppose, you have set your Blog home to a static WP page /myhome. And you have a separate page for blog /blog. Now, this works fine and should…
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Magento Multistore Canonical Tag

I got a short question for you. Magento already have a canonical tool for products and categories. But how does this work with multi stores? Example: I have 3 domains. http://domainname1.at http://domainname2.de http://domainname3.ch All of them…
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Heroku App + Custom Domain - Specify Canonical Domain

I have a Rails app on Heroku that I've set up with a custom domain. I noticed that in Google search results, the herokuapp link appears instead of the custom domain. I'd like the custom domain to be the default that appears in search results. I…
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