canonical link help

Hi @raffibtc

If we’re understanding it correctly, there’s an article published at https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/exc_070721.shtml.

Then you’ve reposted the full content of that article on your own blog, and you’ve set the canonical URL in the advanced section of the Yoast SEO meta box to https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/exc_070721.shtml.

Is your intention to point from your blog to the original version on socialworktoday.com? If so, then yes, setting the canonical URL to that would be correct.

You can learn more about it here – https://yoast.com/what-is-a-canonical-url/

Well, my real intention is just not to get dinged by Google for duplicate content. Have I succeeded at arranging that?

Hi @raffibtc

Yes, it won’t be considered as duplicate content as you’ve set the canonical to where the article was originally published.

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