Should I leave away the http when using the canonical tag

[MichaelJanik]

My site redirects http://www.anydomainblabla.com to www.anydomainblabla.com

So I guess I have to do it like this

Is that correct?

Big thanks for your time.

[Alick300]

Hi Michael,

I assume you are using 301 for redirects http://www.anydomainblabla.com to www.anydomainblabla.com, If yes what is the purpose of using rel="canonical". If not please  let us know.

Thanks

[MichaelJanik]

I see a lot of content theft from my site short-funny.com. And they rank better for my jokes that I wrote. So if somebody copy the whole website Google will know that my site is the right one. Plus the Moz analysis showed that I should use it. I need somehow to stop content scrapers.

[Linda-Vassily]

I'm a bit confused. The http part is the protocol. You sometimes don't see it written out in the URL bar when you are on a page, but it is still there. For your canonical, use the whole thing, including the http. You can read more about it here.

[mcncl]

When using the canonical ensure you use the full URL. There are multiple protocols that can be addressed at a domain, for example, ftp, so including the http:// would be best practise.

A side note about canonicals, if in the future you are planning on moving to https then ensure you update your canonicals. Depending on how you currently deploy your website; WordPress etc, you could use a simple php script to store a variable of protocol which will change globally if the file is updated.