Should you do on-page optimization for a page with rel=canonical tag?

[marynau]

If you ad a rel=canonical tag to a page, should you still optimize that page? I'm talking meta description, page title, etc.

[Nigel_Carr]

Hi manynau

I would just do it anyway for best practice but it's not necessary as you have already said to ignore this URL and use the canonical. Sometimes even though a page is canonicalised to another it can occasionally pop up in Google and when it does you do not want it to be blank.

Regards

Nigel