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Google doesn't show proper meta for my subpage, how to fix it?

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SofyaFr last edited by

We have a subdomain blog.companyname.com. I am working on its English version blog.companyname.com/en but for some reason Google shows meta description from blog.companyname.com in search results which is not in Englsih language. How do I force google to show blog.companyname.com/en 's own meta?
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SofyaFr @Vanderlindemedia last edited by

Thank you so very much.!!!!!
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Vanderlindemedia last edited by

If your page is blog.companyname.com/en/ then your canonical should be blog.companyname.com/en/
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SofyaFr @Vanderlindemedia last edited by

Alright, tell me if I get it correctly:

I should add <link rel="canonical" ="" href="https://<span>blog.companyname.com/en</span>">to the code right?</link >

Or should it be for blog.companyname.com?
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Vanderlindemedia last edited by

It's explained here on https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
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