Rel = Canonical in Blog Posting

[OTSEO]

Hello,

I keep coming back to rel=canonical issues!

I noticed when I "view pagesource" that my drupal blog posting automatically creates

link rel="canonical" href="/sample-blog-title" /< pattern (with the > reversed) in the source code.

I'm getting a lot of Rel=Canonical warnings and double content warnings from Seomoz so I've been trying to insert

link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/blog/my-awesome-blog-post"<

but the page won't retain the code for some reason. I'm entering the code in Plain Text, but saving the document as Full HTML.

Is there a better piece of code I can put in to demonstrate that the original blog page is the original source?

Thanks!

[wickedsunny1]

Hello,

are you adding it in the head area of your html right ?

[OTSEO]

Hi Ayaz,

I'm adding it near the bottom of the text. Does it need to be the first line of text in the blog post?

Thanks!

[wickedsunny1]

Hello again, you are missing the point this code is needed to be added in the head area of your source code, what is your html like

It is not a part of content/text etc.

[wickedsunny1]

take a look at this, it will help you activate automatic canonical hopefully : http://drupal.org/project/canonical_url

[OTSEO]

Hi Ayaz,

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I've been trying to put the rel=canonical code into the wysisyg editor this whole time.

So where should the code be placed? It's drupal, so should I make a block on the page where the rel=canonical text is supposed to be placed? what's the best way to put the code into the head of the source code?

Thanks?