On our web pages we use tags to tell search engines what the pages features. A Canonical Tag is a tag, in the form of HTML code, that defines the main version for duplicate, near‐duplicate and similar pages.

The Ahrefs contributor Joshua Hardwick has published a useful guide on ‘canonical tags’.

Hardwick saysm “Canonical tags are nothing new. They’re been around since 2009—the best part of a decade.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo united to create them. Their aim? To provide website owners with a way to solve duplicate content issues quickly and easily.

Do they work? Yes, perfectly… but only if you know how to use them!

In this guide, you’ll learn:

Canonical Tags: A Simple Guide for Beginners

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