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What is the best use of canonical ref on home (default/index) page?

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bhsiao last edited by

Moz reports show duplicate content for my www.domain.com and www.domain.com/default.html

How do I format the canonical ref to put on the default.html page?
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SergioB1717 last edited by

In case you still have any doubt about it, I have searched for a link to complement the information of the other users:

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

I hope it helps you
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Joe_Stoffel last edited by

Hi there,

You will want to inject this tag into the section of http://www.domain.com/default.html

(or https://www. if your site is secure).

Additionally, you can 301 redirect www.domain.com/default.html to www.domain.com/ and that will also resolve the issue.

Hope that helps!
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