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#6929 – Canonical URLs

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Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:30 UTC

dattard

Hi guys,

so I've been having some issues and I'm trying to see whether I can resolve these with canonicals. Sometimes, I'm having content that can be accessed with URLs based on URLs structures which have changed over the years.

Whenever I miss some URLs I end up with duplicate content.

Now, it seems that sh404SEF has functionality to place canonicals.

I'd like to be able to put canonicals for all URLs, but it looks like this functionality is mostly on a case-by-base basis? And for self-referencing canonicals, how do I go about setting that up?

Cheers
David

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:49 UTC

wb_weeblr

but it looks like this functionality is mostly on a case-by-base basis?

Quite the opposite (although you can of course add canonical one by one). See documentation here.

And for self-referencing canonicals, how do I go about setting that up?

Just like any other. Difficulty with self-referencing is that - if I understand correctly what you are saying - it won't be of any help to anything. A canonical is only useful if it references another URL.

If you have /the-main-url and /the-duplicate-url both going to the same content, adding a self-referencing canonical to each of them won't do any good. What you need to do is put a canonical on /the-duplicate-url pointing at /the-main-url.
Whether /the-main-url has a canonical does not really matter - although it does not cause any problem either.

As always, would be better to talk about full and real examples of URLs.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:34 UTC

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