How to add cannonical URL to a blog?

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This is how I do it:

  1. Copy your theme’s layouts/_default/baseof.html file into your own layouts/_default folder (most themes doesn’t touch baseof.html and use a different partial, so just follow the trail).

  2. Add this:

    {{ with .Params.relcanonical }}
  <link rel="canonical" href="{{ . | relLangURL }}" itemprop="url" />
{{ else -}}
  <link rel="canonical" href="{{ .Permalink }}" itemprop="url" />
{{ end -}}

  3. In your post frontmatter you can then add:

    relcanonical = "https://example.com/post/"

This is assuming that your theme did not provide its own rel=canonical. If it is already generating its own rel=canonical, you need to find it and remove it because search engines (especially goog) will ignore all rel=canonical if there is more than one per page.

Hope it helps.

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