How To Add Canonical Tag To Blogger

What is Canonical Tag?

Canonical Tag deal with duplecate Content issues. In order to avoid dnuplicate content, you have to add canonical link in your blogger template. Canonical Tag tell Search Engies that which Url should have for the current page.

How/When and Where the SEO use this tag?

In the previous time, many sites have encountered issues with multiple versions of the same content on different URLs. This creates three big problems:

1. Search engines don't know which version(s) to include/exclude from their indices

1. Search engines don't know whether to direct the link metrics (trust, authority, anchor text, link juice, etc.) to one page, or keep it separated between multiple versions

1. Search engines don't know which version(s) to rank for query results

How to add canonical tag in blogger

The tag is part of the HTML header on a web page, the same section you'd find the Title attribute and Meta Description tag. In fact, this tag isn't new, but like nofollow, simply uses a new rel parameter. For example:

 <link rel="canonical" href="http://cambohelpblogger.blogspot.com" />

We have to add this link tag to Blogger template, below I would show you how exactly to do it. Let's go with me steb-by-step as in the following:

Step 1: Go to Blogger Dashbaord >>Edit HTML>> and press "Ctrl +F" to open the search box and past the tag below to find it:

<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>

Step 2: Just above this line tag past the following link:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://cambohelpblogger.blogspot.com" />

Note: where the red color replace with your own blog Url
Step 3: Click save template.

Now, we have done, we can aviod with duplicate conten issues.