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I recently started blogging through blogger. On my Google Search Console account, I got the error "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" error. When I inspected the affected pages I saw:

?m=1

at the end of the affected URLs. I saw a fix online and added the following line in the HTML of my Blogger account:

<link expr:href='data:blog.url' rel='canonical'/>

I also saw a similar line to the one above which is as follows:

<link expr:href='data:blog.url.canonical' rel= 'canonical'/>

I wanted to ask that is there a difference between these two lines of code. Which one is the correct line? Also if the original URL without ?m=1 is indexed and the URL with ?m=1 is not indexed should I leave it like this or do I need to enter one of the above line in the HTML code of my website?

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An URL with a parameter is a different URL as compared to one without a parameter. If they both serve the same page then you have a duplicate page. The fix is to put a canonical tag with the preferred URL in it.

What is a canonical URL?

A canonical URL is the URL of the page that Google thinks is most representative from a set of duplicate pages on your site. For example, if you have URLs for the same page (example.com?dress=1234 and example.com/dresses/1234), Google chooses one as canonical.

From developers.google

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com"> or

<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com">

are the normal way to specify a canonical, depending on whether you are supporting www. But it is advisable to put in a complete (absolute) Link. If you do not do that then you can still have duplication because of http/https protocol and www/non www preferences.

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  • can you write the complete code with the link?
    – Muhammad Ahmad
    Commented Feb 2, 2023 at 7:46
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