I need help with a PHP canonical URL tags

[lnietob]

I found a little difficult for me to do a canonical tag in my PHP.

On-Page Report Card

We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.

I don't know how to tidy my PHP

Any suggestion.

[ACann]

Thanks Shane,

That was very simple and to the point.  I am doing SEO on a php site where there's a header and a footer and I didin't know how to add the canoical tag to the header correctly and the On page.  Thanks again.

Benny

[Dr-Pete]

Is this a CMS, or are you trying to make the canonical only impact certain pages or conditions? The canonical tag is just an HTML tag, in the header. It doesn't really need special code, unless the target of the canonical has to be created dynamically. Unfortunately, then the solution depends entirely on your implementation (it's not one-sized-fits-all across all PHP sites).

If you could describe the structure of the site a bit (example URLs and how they're created) without revealing the site, that could help us pin it down.

[Jinx14678]

Hi,

In my site, I use a php expression - as such -

header.php -

On page -

$canonical = "http://www.domain.com";

Here is a recent Blog Post if the above code does not help

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advanced-relcanonical-http-headers

Shane