What's the best way to go about making Duplicate Content Pages on my domain for affiliates?
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Hello, I would like to make a bunch of duplicate pages of my site's Home Page, that way affiliates of mine can have a page of their own with links specialized to themselves littered throughout the page. What's the best practice going about this without jeopardizing domain authority from tons of duplicate content signals firing off?
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Thanks! I went about using my Yoast SEO plugin on my Wordpress site to simply input the canonical URL I wanted to advance the credit to
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thanks, I'm glad I was useful
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A good option for dealing with duplicate content is to use the rel=canonical attribute. This tells search engines that a given page should be treated as though it were a copy of a specified URL, and all of the links, content metrics, and "ranking power" that search engines apply to this page should actually be credited to the specified URL.
in simple words you should create some master page where you put all your seo efforts and tell the crawler ignore the other ones
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