Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.
I am not sure about your question so let me ask you a few questions:
Do you want to upload a file (let’s say: “myfile.pdf” to WordPress. It that case the URL would be something like https://mywebsite.com/wp-content/2020/06/08/myfile.pdf.
Then you want to show a page instead of that file when users try to navigate to that URL, a page where the user could see some details about the PDF and finally download it.
Is it what you are trying?
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Hi Alberto,
thanks for your reply.
I will have html page (https://bjoernvilcens.de/pdf-portfolio/) that contains links to different pdf files.
The canonical link of those different pdf files should link to a html page so that link juice from that PDF is given to the correct page and not to the PDF itself.
e.g.
https://bjoernvilcens.de/pdf-portfolio/pdf-portfolio-business.pdf should have a canonical link reference to https://bjoernvilcens.de/businessfotografie
and so on
Hope I could clarify my issue 🙂
BR
Hello,
I appreciate the clarification.
Unfortunately, this cannot be done as it is not possible.
Since PDF files do not have HTML tags, you cannot add canonical tags to them.
Instead of directly linking to PDF files, you can create a new post for each PDF and then embed the PDF within that post.
You can easily add or change a canonical tag that way.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
