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Google Updates Official Docs: Add Canonicals to Canonical Pages Themselves

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Google's help documentation now explicitly recommends using self-referential canonicals on canonical pages themselves.

SEOFOMO News reports that Google has updated its canonical help document to formalize guidance recommending self-referential canonical tags—rel="canonical" links pointing to a page from itself. While this represents established best practice rather than a novel recommendation, the inclusion in official Google documentation provides practitioners with authoritative reference material.
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