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willem

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6/17/2026 4:29 AM

Hi everyone,

We’ve noticed that some DNN websites are not being indexed properly in Bing. After some investigation, it seems that a possible cause is that canonical links are missing from the page section.

Ideally, each page should include a canonical tag like this:

<code><link rel="canonical" href="https://www.domain.com/current-page-url/" /></code>

However, in our DNN setup this tag is not being generated by default.

My questions are:

Why doesn’t DNN include canonical URLs in the by default?
Is there a built-in setting in DNN to enable canonical tags for each page automatically?
If not, what is the recommended way to add a dynamic canonical URL for each page (based on its unique URL/alias)?
Has anyone implemented this in a reliable way (e.g. via skin, module, or SEO extension)?

Any best practices or working examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Mitchel Sellers

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6/26/2026 12:45 AM

Currently DNN Platform only writes a Canoncial URL tag when your portal alias mapping mode is set to Canonical AND the currently viewed page is NOT that domain.

There is an issue/request to improve this within the community backlog - https://github.com/dnnsof...Platform/issues/5823 - It would just need someone willing/able to contribute a solution to the platform.

A workaround, that works for MOST situations is to use the PageHeaderTags configurations on a page-by-page basis to add your own header, but it wilL NOT be unique, so you cannot utilize this process on pages that have for eample a blog module on them, as it will nto be correct due to the ever changing URL's

I've done some funny business myself in a Theme, on a controlled codebase, that worked even with blog modules etc, but it was a very solution specific fix.

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