Where in my wordpress admin panel do I add the .

[catherine-279388]

Having read Rand's post about the canonical tag I very much wish to use it to advise Google that the duplicates created during archiving (due to the fact that the posts have multiple categories) are just copies.

I understand the theory, but can't transfer it into practice!  Could someone give me an idiots guide as to how to add the tag and to where.  My site produces approx 10 - 20 blog posts per week.  Each has at least 2-4 categories applied to it.  They are archived each month, at which point I have  a big jump in duplicates in my campaign panel.

Help!

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[ThomasHgenhaven]

Hi Catherine,

Is Wordpress hosted on wordpress.com or your own server?

If its hosted on your own server, you can insert the code bit in the header.php.

If you are not comfortable with coding, you might want to try out Yoast's rel canonical plugin: http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/

[Dan-Petrovic]

You can install the "Canonical URL's" plugin straight from your wp-admin interface: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=search&type=term&s=canonical&plugin-search-input=Search+Plugins

(should be first result)

This plugin is pretty basic but you can tweak its settings in the plugin configuration panel.

You will now notice that your source code contains another line:

rel='canonical' href='http://yourwebsite.com' />

[catherine-279388]

Gosh that was quick.  It's on it's own server I can get access to the header,php.  I've been happy setting up 'Google Analytics' in the footer, for example.

My problem is getting my head around WP.  I've done years of HTML, CSS and dreamweaver.  I'm assuming I need to add the

[ThomasHgenhaven]

Yes! That's right.

Just make sure you don't add the same URL on all sub pages. Dr. Pete did that as an experiment. It did not turn out well.

And yes, quick answers - that's how we roll in the q&a

[catherine-279388]

Thank you Dejan - would that be better than adding

[Dan-Petrovic]

It will be dynamic and you won't have to think and manually add canonical URL to each page you create. It will be done automatically. I suggest you test it as soon as it's set up by checking your source code.

[catherine-279388]

Ta Ta and Ta again.  I have been getting so worked up about this.  Daft I know!

Thanks

Catherine

[catherine-279388]

I will.  The penny has dropped and you and Thomas has cleared up my confusion.

Thank you very much for you help

Catherine

[ThomasHgenhaven]

Happy to help

(Btw. please help hiding answered questions by marking this one as answered

[KeriMorgret]

As an Associate, I marked this question as answered. Catherine, glad you were able to get your question answered so quickly! When you next visit this thread, it'd be great if you could mark the Helpful Answers, which will give some extra MozPoints to these gentlemen.