Rel canonical tag on a single page site?

[graftene]

I have a wordpress theme site which essentially is all in 1 page. Do I need to use rel-canonical tag? It would just loop?

[JarnoNijzing]

Graftene,

you are absolutely right that it would just loop, however there are several reason you can still apply the tag.

1. If someone find the need to copy your entire site / code they will also copy your canonical which may not be deleted by them.

2. If there are instances of the some content on the net you at least tell the search engines that the original version of the text is on your website.

The second reason in my opinion is the most important. Why? Because if you do some content marketing and you share your information or your texts with the web it can very well be that you would want to use your own text, in that case, the search engine at least knows where the original is.

Hope this helps some

Regards

Jarno