i need help with canonical url's

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September 28, 2023 at 11:59 am #14481313
Rob Coers	We have a new language - in draft - but almost finished. We have well Google indexed posts (en_GB) like: hidden link In the new language en_US this posts has identical content under this URL: hidden link To prevent a Google punishment for 'duplicate content', is it good practice to set a canonical URL in the en_US post, as seen in the image?
September 29, 2023 at 12:58 pm #14487779
Nicolas V. Supporter Languages: English (English ) French (Français ) Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)	Hi, Welcome to the WPML support forum. Thanks for contacting us. We are currently handling a high amount of ticket and while waiting for one of my colleagues to help with this ticket, please allow me to give you a quick answer. We have an option to display untranslated content in secondary languages that won't impact your SEO. You can use "Translatable - use translation if available or fallback to default language" It will take care of the canonical URL for you and you won't have to manually copy or duplicate the content from one language to another. Here is the full documentation: https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/displaying-untranslated-content-on-pages-in-secondary-languages/#using-the-default-language-as-a-fallback-for-untranslated-content Having said that you're right, canonical URLs will indicate to Google which page is the original page and therefore reduce the risk of "duplicate content".