Can we add CANONICAL as an HTML attribute?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 9:48 am

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  Especially in a world of reblogs.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 9:33 pm

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  Interesting request. I’m subscribed to this thread.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 10:09 pm

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  The canonical tag should already be in place for individual post URLs as shown here:

  http://d.pr/i/sqdi

  Are you referring specifically to reblogs?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 1:14 am

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  No, I mean when I put it in the text editor in a regular post, it gets stripped out. It would be nice if it were not.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 2:02 pm

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  Thanks for clarifying. The link HTML tag is stripped out (as you know). I don’t think the ability to add the tag within the body of the page would offer much benefit as we automatically add it to the head of the document, which is the recommended method by Google:

  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

  From what I’ve read, it seems like including the canonical tag in the body is disregarded by Google anyway. That’s mentioned under #5 here:

  http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html