Rel canonical tag question

[Dataken]

Im trying to to fix my duplicate content problem with my catagory pages in  my shopping cart.

I have read about adding a rel canonical tag to the page so it links back to the main catagory page.

So if I add a rel canonical tag to the main catagory page it will show up on every other page for that catagory like page 1 page 2 and so on and it will have the tag linking back to the main cat. That should fix it it right?

Now that being said I cant seem to add the tag invetween the head tags.

I can add it to the body where I can add content. Will the rel canonical tag work outside the head tags?

Any other ideas on this fix?

I contacted my people that host the cart to see if they have any features to help this will see what they say.

[Dataken]

Thanks David

Im using deponet for my shopping cart. I have opened a support ticket with them and it sounds like they can setup a rel canonical tag that will work automated.

Im not sure how that works so I asked them for a little more information.

I know some shopping carts have a feature for rel canonical tags but I dont see it here.

Yes there not static pages they can change depending on how many products are in one catagory.

Thanks again for your answer.

[David_C]

Well if you can get the canonical tag in the head section this would certainly be preferred. It sounds obvious that you are dealing with a dynamically generated page rather than a static page or you would certainly be able to insert the tag with any average web editor.

I don't know that too many people would have ever tired this to honest with regard to placing such a tag in the body section. I'm gathering that you need the tag based on numerous results for the same product page, such as page 2, page 3 an so on right.

What type of shopping cart are you using? This can help others answer your question as they may be using the same cart and as such it might be an easy answer. If you could supply a link and/or cart type I might have more insight.