Why would peakd be the canonical link instead of busy or hive.blog or leofinance?
Can you also push for d.tube to be the canonical link on all videos?
Thank you
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Why would peakd be the canonical link instead of busy or hive.blog or leofinance?
Can you also push for d.tube to be the canonical link on all videos?
Thank you
I think the idea is that the canonical link is whatever site the user used to post the content. I'd be in favor of this being the default, but also allowing the user to override it from the interface.
For example, I might post using @peakd for its powerful interface, but because it is not open source and I have less confidence in its longterm persistence compared to hive.blog, I might want the canonical link to be hive.blog.
If I'm not mistaken, sites are penalized in terms of SEO ranking for posting duplicate content and not specifying it the canonical link. Once most Hive frontends are setting the proper canonical, it will be clear to search engines which version is the true canonical. Therefore versions that don't specify canonical and are not the true canonical might be penalized.
This is somewhat speculation, but I'd be surprised if Google doesn't do something similar.
I would side with your speculation.