Advice needed for canonical tags

kiwigold84

Hi, I'm in need of some advice for correct use of canonical tags. The situation is as follows. We have a website that lists locations. Locations can belong to multiple categories, like: 'open on monday' and 'open at night'. Each category has it's own URL. So location A can be found at www.mydomain.com/open-monday/location-a and also on www.mydomain.com/open-at-night/location-a. Some locations only fall under one category.

Would the case where one location falls under multiple categories and thus can be found at multiple URLs be considered duplicate content? Should I use a canonical tag on one of them? And is there a logic behind which one to choose as preferred URL, because both URLs are sort of equal, there is no 'best' URL.

Also what happens if a canonical tag is used on the preferred page? (with the URL of that page). Is that a problem?
(f.e.: on www.mydomain.com/open-monday/location-a the canonical tag points to that same URL).

Thanks for any help!

DeeptiGarg

canonical tag is basically used to redirect the website: ex : if your first domain is submit in google with www. and second is same domain is submit in google without www then google will count it 2 different domains and duplicate content so to save the google penalization we used to canonical tag.

microbubble

canonical tag will tell Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft that they should consider the page they’re crawling as a duplicate, and move on to the canonical version. It isn’t necessary to place this tag on the actual canonical version of your content – the tag is designed to point all the other versions back to it.