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Canonical tag

by fernandooa
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HI there

if I have a site in English co.uk and English .com and I want the american one(.com) to be the important one how it should be done the canonical tag?

- American site (mysite.com)
rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com"

-UK site (mysite.co.uk)

rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com" OR
rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.co.uk"

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    Originally Posted by fernandooa View Post

    HI there

    if I have a site in English co.uk and English .com and I want the american one(.com) to be the important one how it should be done the canonical tag?

    - American site (mysite.com)
    rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com"

    -UK site (mysite.co.uk)

    rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com" OR
    rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.co.uk"

    Thanks
    Do both sites show the same content or unique content?

    If the same content you really shouldn't have two domains load the exact same content, that's a duplicate content issue. If this is the scenario add the same canonicals on both domains pointing to the most important version.

    Generally speaking having duplicate sites isn't a good idea SEO wise. If this is your setup you'd do better 301 redirecting the least important to the important one and that would concentrate all SEO benefit to one site.

    If the content of both sites are unique use unique canonicals for each.

    Look at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk they have unique content and if they use canonicals (didn't check: I assume they would), they would each have unique ones since they are separate sites with different content.

    David
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    I wouldn't use the canonical tag. For once I'd listen to Google's advice and use the hreflang tag but it is a bitch to implement;
    https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/189077?hl=en

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