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Reputation: 556

canonical tag and file extensions

I was just wondering, I use a .htaccess script to strip the file extensions from my URL's

Would the canonical tag, which is the direct URL you want to user to see contain the file extensions for example;

 mysite.co.uk/locations/regions/thislocation.html

Example of how my actual url would look;

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.co.uk/locations/regions/thislocation"/>

Would the canonical tag be set up with the above URL or with the file extension?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 463

Answers (2)

user5855558
user5855558

Reputation:

@anubhava You have to setup a canonical tag without extension.Because google crawls a URL which shows in you Header.

therefore Link will be : <link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.co.uk/locations/regions/thislocation"/>

Upvotes: 1

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943615

The canonical URL should represent the URL you want the user to visit (and see in their address bar), not one that only exists as a side-effect of your implementation (the point of it is to stop the .html version being indexed by search engines).

Upvotes: 2

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