Blog duplicate content - Canonial tags

[mrhighfiveee]

hi there 

how can i stop my blog from being duplicated content 
the canonial tag I should not place in to blog header you say, the same post is read 4 times by search engines

www.website.com/blog

www.website.com/blog/category/example

www.website.com/blog/category/all

www.website.com/blog/real.blog.post.name

yes I see othere posts like this but no solutions? this is making my blogs useless

..... its the year of 2019 twoooo thooousand nineteeen

how do I stop search engines from reading the first 3 in line?

best regards

[Adam7]

I don't think there is a way to do that with our current blog setup, @mrhighfiveee. Any potential solutions I can think of would also make it so that people couldn't use those pages.

[mrhighfiveee]

www.website.com/blog

www.website.com/blog/category/example

www.website.com/blog/category/all

what if the pages had only links in them?  a nice picture of choice with headline text to klik to enter the post.

the posts is open why would we want them open anyways, can't get an overview of anything

will it help me changing to a different theme?

[Adam7]

Changing a theme would not affect the actual structure of blog pages, unfortunately. There's really not a way I can think of to resolve this.

[mrhighfiveee]

hi again -

there 2 themes I see resolving this

"spotlight" at the bottom of new themes at the buisness section

and "Slick" at the top of new themes in the blog section of themes

amirite? : )

just not realy happy with them hiding the site navigation menu

[Adam7]

Those are themes that do not have a blog sidebar, right? The elements you see the blog sidebar that have links to category pages can be removed like any standard element.

[mrhighfiveee]

thoes are themes that does not have unfolded text
in /blog and /category

just links to the blog post. so no duplicated content

[Adam7]

Can you check in Theme > Theme Options for those themes and see if there's an option related to the menu? Some themes have an option you can toggle to always display the menu icon instead of desktop navigation. You might be able to get what you want with the navigation with one of those themes.

[Wi_Paul]

Hi Adam

I've seen a lot of chat about canonical and you seem to know what to do.

I have /index.html on my home page (for some reason, I don't know why).

I want my homepage to be https://www.mysite.co.uk (not with index.html at the end and not 2 pages).

I think you are saying add a canonical tag in the pages' SEO header...

Please can you tell me if it is this?
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mysite.co.uk">

And for my bonus question: I want to get rid of the .htmls that are all over the site
Can I add a canonical tag as above on every page like this?

Will it work? Is it bad?

eg

https://www.mysite.co.uk/contact.html

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mysite.co.uk/contact">

Thanks
Paul

[Adam7]

It isn't possible to remove ".html", although any page of your site can be accessed without it so you could add the link tags examples you've given. I don't know what the SEO impact of that would be, if any, though.