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    • carbbon
      carbbon last edited by

      This canonical thing is brand new to me and I'm trying to wrap my mind around it.

      Here is my situation:  I use Wordpress.  I am showing duplicate content with the following url's

      http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/

      http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/page/2/

      Would setting a canonical link solve this? If so, what do I put in the Canonical box for this category (online workout blog).  I use Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin.

      Any help is greatly appreciated.

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      • Saijo.George
        Saijo.George last edited by

        I am assuming you have some content on http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/ and the continuation of that on http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/page/2/

        In this case I would go with rel=”next” and rel=”prev”

        Read this for more info : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

        So basically you would have

        this in the head of page http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/

        http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/page/2/" />

        and in the head of http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/page/2/ you would add

        http://crosstrainingandfitness.com/online-workout-blog/" />

        Assuming you have no page 3

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