What's a Canonical URL Tag? How Do I Use It for SEO?

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May 31, 2019/20 Comments/by Ryan Stewart

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Almost Home Real Estate Services says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Great breakdown. Thank you! I'm puzzled and would love your guidance. I did my keyword research, I'm ready to start my blog, (I have my Yoast settings optimized), but I'm hitting a wall with how to structure posts vs pages so I don't duplicate my efforts/info in these. Do you have any videos to point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
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24SevenMarketing says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

I am confused … I want to rank various pages on my site for a keyword and city 1… the same keyword city 2 … and so on for city 3 … city 4 … … city 1,000. The intent on all these pages will be pretty much the same except for switching the city names. I will also have a main page on my site that will be optimized for the keyword without any localization. If I add canonical links in Yoast to all of the localized pages with essentially the same content on on every page … will I loose the rankings for the keyword phrases "keyword in city"? Not sure I understand all this.
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asma s says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Thanks for a real video…after watching several videos finally I got a video which explained me well …Many thanks
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Marlar House says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

FINALLY! Somebody who could explain it in a way that makes sense without giving me a migraine! This was posted three years ago so maybe some terms have changed, as WordPress does not show "canonical" anymore – but it does have "trackback". Is that the same thing?
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Res Les says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Thanks great info. Better audio would be nice
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harshith moolya says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

I have one doubt, i have 2 similar pages with one url /jee-main and other one is /jee-main-2018. Content is totally different sentence is totally different, but means same. Now i want to rank both the pages in google. Now the problem is only 1 page is ranking in google for any keyword, either jee main or jee main 2018 or other keywords. The ranking url is /jee-main. The other url is no where in 200 search results. What should i do? What might be the problem.
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harshith moolya says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

I need help , i have 2 pages different content.. but the topics are same . And url is for 1st page is exams.getmyuni.com/jee-main
And 2nd page
exams.getmyuni.com/jee-main-2018

But the thing is title tag is similar i just shuffled it . You can checkout the url for title tag. My question is does it look like duplicate title tag, but in webmaster its not showing as duplicate title tag..

Can i know does it called as duplicate title. Please help
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Keyless Entry Remote Inc says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

thanks for the video
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prathmesh gawai says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

now i got this………thanks man
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Yohan Zingile says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Hello, I am using a website and I am planning to create an identical wordpress website to assign it to a specific geographic location (country). By inserting a canonical tag on the posts of the new website, would it prevent the pages content from appearing in google search engine in that specific country? By selecting the "index" or "no index option", how would it affect he search?
(I know there is an option of creating subdomain with the country code, but I am not planning on creating separate domains).
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PGL Info (Réparation d'ordinateur/Services Informatiques à domicile) says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Thanks you for explaining this!
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Eugene Logan says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Thank you OMG ruls
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Tito Gaming says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Gave you the Like for that Drake music!
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angelica martinez says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

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angelica martinez says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

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Cluck Family says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

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Mike Lee says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

I have a site like the last one you discuss and even with the canonical tag, Google is ranking the home page (very similar keyword structure). Bing and Yahoo get it right, go figure
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Shahzad Nabeel says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

Sorry for the irrelevant question, I just want to know which software you use for video editing? Thanks
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Simon P McCullagh says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

fuckin great video dude, my head has been up my arse as regards canonical tags so thanks for pulling my head out my butt!
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Ameer ul Islam says:
May 31, 2019 at 9:22 am

in wordpress I get a little bit confused, what I see there is they use canonical in a post and they put that post's link. I don't know why do they need to use canonical and tell google that this is the page that is original, when there is actually only one page of it.

I thought if canonical needed they would just needed in the blog page.. (but then again that's also confusing since in blog there are many posts.
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