[Rank Math SEO Plugin] Change Canonical URL.

[buedvideos]

Hi,

I would like to change my canonical url to point to the url with the trailing slash.

example>

my current canonical url points to the url withouth the trailing slash. https://site.com

i want to change to point to> https://site.com/

I have a ryte account and this is what they told me:

Quote

 

Best practise is usually to have the version with trailing slash be the canonical version, actually. Especially for the root directory it doesn't make much sense to have it the other way around, as Google always indexes the root with trailing slash. You can check out their webmaster guidelines for more information on that.

 

As long as you are consistent it shouldn't matter whether or not your canonical URLs have trailing slashes, though.

To resolve the issue that Ryte reports you only need to make sure that all your internal links point to canonical URLs. At the moment you have 102 links, as well as your sitemap(!), pointing to https://afrohouseking.com/(with trailing slash), even though the canonical on that page points to the URL without trailing slash.

 

Also please note that by the looks of it your homepage is actually the only page on your domain that points to the URL without trailing slash as canonical. All other canonical URLs seem to have the trailing slash: 

 

 

is there a way to change the canonical url, because i cannot find that option on the plugin.

Thank you.

[Pratik.d]

Hello,

Thank you for contacting MyThemeShop today.

By default Rank Math uses Post permalink value for canonical url. You can add trailing slash in Permalink structure by Navigating to Dashboard >> Settings >> Permalinks: 

 

If you only want to change canonical url without changing permalink structure then, please add below filter code in your theme's functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/canonical', function( $url ) {
	return trailingslashit( $url );
});

Hope that helps. If there is anything else, please let us know.

Thank you.

[Pratik.d]

Hello,

Thank you for contacting MyThemeShop today.

By default Rank Math uses Post permalink value for canonical url. You can add trailing slash in Permalink structure by Navigating to Dashboard >> Settings >> Permalinks: 

 

If you only want to change canonical url without changing permalink structure then, please add below filter code in your theme's functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/canonical', function( $url ) {
	return trailingslashit( $url );
});

Hope that helps. If there is anything else, please let us know.

Thank you.

[buedvideos]

The code Worked.

Thank you.

[Montgomerie]

Hello,

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