Prevent Duplicate Content Issues Canonical URL’s With RankMath In WordPress

It prevents you from loosing good Google juice when you re-post content on your website, or you allow others to repost your content.

What is Canonical URL?

How to Canonicalize your URLs and prevent duplicate content issues?

In this video we’ll run through what a Canonical URL with RankMath in WordPress is, how it works and how it prevents you from loosing good Google juice when you re-post content on your website, or you allow others to repost your content.

Canonical URLs point to the original source of the content. If for example you post a press release from a company on your website, this is where you would add the canonical with their original URL. Then Google knows you are legitimately re-posting, and does not penalise you for duplicate content.

0:21 What is Canonical URL

1:12 How to Canonicalize Your URLs

3:12 How to Update Canonical URL

Duncan Isaksen-Loxton

Educated as a web developer, with over 20 years of internet based work and experience, Duncan is a Google Workspace Certified Collaboration Engineer and a WordPress expert.
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