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9 years 11 months ago #2409 by cbartman0145
Canonical Tag Function was created by cbartman0145
So my company told me that we need to host a duplicate company site and (get rid of the 301 redirects) and host the site in Germany under a .de domain. My question is should I add a canonical tag on every page on the .de tag meta? and if so, what do I place in the menu. Currently I am pacing the URL of the page that has the same content as the .de site. Your help is greatly appreciated! Attached explains a little more. I apologize if this question has been asked a lot..
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9 years 11 months ago #2413 by admin
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Hi,
you could create a rule to add the right canonical (same URL just domain extension different) to each page. Try this:
URL: .*
Canonical: http://<domain.de>{path}{query}
Request only: true (checked)
Last rule: false (unchecked)

Kind regards,
Luigi

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9 years 11 months ago #2418 by cbartman0145
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So, just entering the URL on the Tag Meta plugin of the webpage for which that webpage is copied from won't do the trick? I only see one menu line for which to add the canonicol link. Please see attachment in initial post.

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9 years 11 months ago #2419 by admin
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Hi,
the canonical is a single field but the value is calculated dynamically thanks to macros {path} and {query}, and the field URL can matches partially with an URL or can be a regular expression. This is the real power of Tag Meta. But I made a little mistake in the rule. Let's assume you create this rule on the .de site:
URL: .*
Canonical: http://www.yourdomain.com{path}{queryfull}
Request only: true (checked)
Last rule: false (unchecked)

When you call this URL:

www.yourdomain.de/cat/page/index.html?a=10&b=test

This URL matches the rule so the canonical will be generated as follow:

http://www.yourdomain.com{path}{queryfull}

But {path} will be replaced with the current path (/cat/page/index.html) and {queryfull} with the current query, included the question mark (?a=10&b=test). So the final canonical will be.

www.yourdomain.com/cat/page/index.html?a=10&b=test

Try yourself and let me know.

Kind regards,
Luigi

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