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    • marknorman
      marknorman last edited by

      I have 3 websites with same content, I want to add Canonical tag to my main website. Is this also important to mentioned other duplicate URL in canonical tag in main website? or just need to just add

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        Just

        why do you have 3 websites with same content?

        what are you trying to achieve?

        Are they on different tlds, .for example .co.uk .com.au

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        • marknorman
          marknorman @AlanMosley last edited by

          Actually my website is old, and I never used canonical tags, Some of the websites copied my content and they added canonical tag on there website. How google find that my website is original content source. ?

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          • AlanMosley
            AlanMosley @marknorman last edited by

            They may already know this.

            It is my understanding that pinching someone's content and putting a canonical tag on it does little. if you were to put a canonical tag on your site pointing to theirs then that would be a signal that they are the original content owners.

            having a page domain.com with a canonical tag pointing to domain.com does nothing,

            having 2 pages domainB.com and domainA.com one with a canonical tag pointing to the other tells the search engine the other is the one to give credit to.
            If you don't have access to the other sites, a canonical on your own site is not going to do you much good.

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            • MoosaHemani
              MoosaHemani @AlanMosley last edited by

              Agreed with Alan, do as Alan said and Google will actually figure out what is the original version of the website.

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