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    Hi Moz, Asking on how to put the canonical header manually onto old blog posts?

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    • Jeanie04
      Jeanie04 last edited by

      Hi Moz,

      Can you help me on how to put canonical header manually onto old blog posts?

      Thanks

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      • TimHolmes
        TimHolmes last edited by

        You need to place the canonical tag into your area.

        The canonical tag looks like so and should include the name of the page you are wishing to canonicalise as the original source file.

        rel="canonical" href="/nameofpage.html" /> That should do the trick.

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        • Jeanie04
          Jeanie04 @TimHolmes last edited by

          Thanks

          Will try this one, and will get back to you if there is changes.

          Jeanie

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