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Should i make all of my pages with canonical tag

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Vmezoz last edited by

Hi,

Im using thesis Wordpress theme, and their default option is "Add canonical <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>s to your site"

im just wandering if i should keep that box checked and apply canonical <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</acronym>s to all of my pages?

Thank You
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Raydon last edited by

it depends. that Option can often help a little bit with scrapers if you are going to run a blog (scraping WILL happen if you have worthy content). otherwise, there is not a real need to that.

see this thread for more info. this other link is mentioned in there for modifications to this theme's metadata and settings.
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