Is there a benefit to having a canonical link on each page pointing to itself?
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Hello, fellow masters of the byte. It's been a while. I see the site format has changed, it will take some getting use to.
My question, I think is straight forward I think, as I hope the answer for it is, a yes or no. Here is an example. I'll make it short and small
Let's say: I have a 5-page website. It's pages are:
* Home (1)
* About (2)
* Resume (3)
* Services (4)
* Contact (5)
Please KEEP IN MIND that I know that using Rel canonical is for essentially saying THIS PAGE IM LINKING TO IS THE ACTUAL LINK AS THERE ARE MANY LINKS THAT POINT TO THE SAME PAGE. For example
* https://www.example.com/index.php
* https://www.example.com
* http://www.example.com
* http://example.com/index.php?itemid=123
* etc.
The above is NOT MY PROBLEM no my question.
My QUESTION is THIS. I still have the 5 pages but I want to add in the <head> of each page the URL of each page. I know that rel canonical is mostly used when pointing to ANOTHER page. But what about pointing to SELF-page. The page itself.
<head>
<title> Example About Page </title>
<meta name="description" content=""/>
<meta name="author" content=""/>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/about.php">
</head>
Is there any benefit to this?
TL;DR - Is there any benefit to having a rel canonical link to the page you<link rel="canonical" href="(The current working page)"> IS there ANY BENEFIT? SEO or otherwise?
My question, I think is straight forward I think, as I hope the answer for it is, a yes or no. Here is an example. I'll make it short and small
Let's say: I have a 5-page website. It's pages are:
* Home (1)
* About (2)
* Resume (3)
* Services (4)
* Contact (5)
Please KEEP IN MIND that I know that using Rel canonical is for essentially saying THIS PAGE IM LINKING TO IS THE ACTUAL LINK AS THERE ARE MANY LINKS THAT POINT TO THE SAME PAGE. For example
* https://www.example.com/index.php
* https://www.example.com
* http://www.example.com
* http://example.com/index.php?itemid=123
* etc.
The above is NOT MY PROBLEM no my question.
My QUESTION is THIS. I still have the 5 pages but I want to add in the <head> of each page the URL of each page. I know that rel canonical is mostly used when pointing to ANOTHER page. But what about pointing to SELF-page. The page itself.
<head>
<title> Example About Page </title>
<meta name="description" content=""/>
<meta name="author" content=""/>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/about.php">
</head>
Is there any benefit to this?
TL;DR - Is there any benefit to having a rel canonical link to the page you<link rel="canonical" href="(The current working page)"> IS there ANY BENEFIT? SEO or otherwise?
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DeveloperDan -
Thanks
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