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is pointing to the same page that it is already on, is this a problem?

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cttgroup last edited by

So we have a wordpress site with the all-in-one-seo-pack installed. I have just noticed in our crawl diagnostics that a canonical tag has been put in place on every single one of our pages, but they are all pointing to the pages that they are already on. Is this a problem? Should I be worried about this and delve more deeply to figure out as to why this has happened and get it removed?

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Ok thanks for the quick response
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AdamThompson last edited by

It's OK for a page to specify itself as the canonical URL.
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