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Business SEO Basics Better SEO Through Code Canonicalization

Austin Harms
Austin Harms
8,680 Points
Posted by Austin Harms
Austin Harms
8,680 Points

How would you set the canonical link in a Wordpress site?

Since Wordpress themes are written in PHP and the HTML is then generated, how would you add the canonical link to the duplicate page? Would you have to modify one of the PHP files?

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mikes02
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mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points
mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

I use the Yoast SEO WordPress plugin and let it take care of that, make it very easy and allows you to do a lot of beneficial SEO after installing the plugin, very easy to use and there are guides on Google that will show you how to configure it as well.

Thiago Nogueira
Thiago Nogueira
8,411 Points
Thiago Nogueira
Thiago Nogueira
8,411 Points

Thanks for sharing this information, I am going to look into it! I have been using WP and wondered how i could improve my SEO on it. :)

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

I think you will like it, I use it on pretty much all WordPress sites, it makes SEO much easier.