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(Entry was posted by Dave Elliott on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/09/2014).

Should I not bother with canonical?

Irritating canonicalisation problem that is making me confused and wanting to stab people. help me not get done for murder!!

I have a site with a blog thingy on it.

the blog lives onĀ /latest-news

i want to canonicalise the front page of the blog to /latest-news/view-all so that the content is always on the page and to avoid pagination issues.

The stupid blog module is considering everything in the blog as one page and then dynamically creating stuff.

eg. if i put a canonical tag into the head it affects.

/latest-news/view-all
/latest-news/
/latest-news/(category)

and most annoyingly

/latest-news/(post title)

in the case of /latest-news/(post title) it also generates its own canonical tag for each post. Which will result in there being two canonical tags on these pages(the auto generated comes after the /latest-news/view-all tag in the code, if this changes anything)

How in the hell am i meant to sort this? is it possible? Should i just sort the site map for this section and not bother with canonical??
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