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Canonical Tags Usage For Child Categories

by harry784
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Hi Friends,

On my website i am using child categories which have parent also.Should i use Canonical URLs or it is not required for posts under child categories.During writing a post i only select child category for posts under child categories.

Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author rozerr
    Well, if you are saying that you only post content in child category then i think no need to implement canonical tag.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by harry784 View Post

    Hi Friends,

    On my website i am using child categories which have parent also.Should i use Canonical URLs or it is not required for posts under child categories.During writing a post i only select child category for posts under child categories.

    Regards
    A canonical tag is basically a redirect telling Google where the original content/page is located. Unless you have the same content on multiple pages there's no need to use a canonical tag pointing to any other webpage/URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author lancebachmann1seo
    It is an independent decision that you have to make. Check site: for all Parent URL`s and Child URL`s and work out accordingly... If you want all the traffic to come to parent category then user to decide where to go or what to search then CANONICAL tag for parent category is OK for all PARENT and CHILD pages. Else check site:childurl.html (An example) and if you see such pages are also getting indexed and people are coming to such pages then better to remain same and add CANONICAL to such pages for Child Page URL...
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  • Profile picture of the author ezeonlinebiz
    You've got no problem man. Wordpress (version 3.5 and above) already does a good job attaching a canonical tag to the category you selected. So don't worry. If you're using any wordpress version above 3.4, you're good to go.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by ezeonlinebiz View Post

      You've got no problem man. Wordpress (version 3.5 and above) already does a good job attaching a canonical tag to the category you selected. So don't worry. If you're using any wordpress version above 3.4, you're good to go.
      You have no idea which theme OP is running, for all we know his theme developer didn't include the wp_head in the HTML <head> code.

      Besides, I don't think OP understands parent/child doesn't really matter in his example, what matters is duplicate content spread out over multiple internal pages, that's when a canonical tag becomes useful. Then you need to step back & ask yourself why is there duplicate internal pages to begin with?

      Cross domain canonical is a whole other issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author john08
    Will Canonical URLs be useful if the category has different sort orders?
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