Rel="canonical" at the same page

[mycostaricalink]

Hello Everyone!!

We have a Joomla Site and in the template we have a php function that create the **link rel="canonical" **and in the href inserts the same page url.

For example, if the we do a search and the url have some cookies. That Url is gonna be the **rel="canonical" **for that page.

Is it working correctly?

We need an advice to to set it up correctly!

Thanks!

[StreamlineMetrics]

The rel="canonical" tag needs to have the URL that you wish to be the primary designated URL. This tells the search engines only to index this version of the URL and no other versions, and it also tells the search engines that links to other versions of the URL need to be counted as pointing to the canonical version.

So if your page is www.mysite.com/boats.php and you use www.mysite.com/boats.php?utm_medium=adwords, etc. then the canonical tag should be set to www.mysite.com/boats.php so the search engines don't bother messing with the URLs with the parameters in them.