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    • cttgroup
      cttgroup last edited by

      So we have a wordpress site with the all-in-one-seo-pack installed. I have just noticed in our crawl diagnostics that a canonical tag has been put in place on every single one of our pages, but they are all pointing to the pages that they are already on. Is this a problem? Should I be worried about this and delve more deeply to figure out as to why this has happened and get it removed?

      Thanks

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      • AdamThompson
        AdamThompson last edited by

        It's OK for a page to specify itself as the canonical URL.

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        • cttgroup
          cttgroup last edited by

          Ok thanks for the quick response 🙂

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