How to Add Canonical Tags
In this video, you’ll hear some of the following:
"Generally you want to rank as high as possible for certain content and keywords not necessarily get all of your content ranked so in some cases it's a much better idea to have this same or similar content count as the same page as far as these search engines are concerned even if the URLs for these pages are different.
Let's look at a few ways to harness the power of the canonical tag one option is to add this tag inside the header of each page that you want the search engines to look past so to speak in this context that we've been talking about and point that tag to the page that you do want ranked now of course if you have thousands of pages that you want to leave behind in the SERPs then this could get pretty tedious but it's a solid way to guarantee that you're not going to get penalized for duplicate content or other issues on pages that carry this tag in the head that is HTML pages. Aanother way is we can add a snippet of code to our ht access file.
One last method to add the canonical tag is through your sitemap just specify your canonical URLs there save and submit that new sitemap to Google and other search engine consoles but for the record search engines will still have to crawl the content and understand what duplicate content might be there. Sitemap method isn't completely ineffective and it's obviously much much easier especially if you've got this gigantic site with lots of pages".
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