title: How do I create canonical meta tags for mutli-lingual websites to improve SEO?
body: <p>I have a company website (Visual Studio / VB / ASP.NET 4.0) and it's now localized in 10 different languages.</p>
  
  <p>The problem:  My URLs do NOT change when switching from, say, English to Swedish.  Only the text changes, as it calls the information from the "sv" resource file instead of the "en" resource file.  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/896341/stefan">Stefan </a> noted that this will not count against me for duplicate content.</p>
  
  <p>But <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/303484/tiggerito">Tiggerito</a> came up with an excellent suggestion.  He suggested I use canonical tags in the  section to intimate to SE bots that I have other languages.  I'd like to follow his suggestion, and <strong>add canonical tags to my master pages</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody tell me how I can go about doing this?  What would the tags look like, and would I have to have one for en, es-MX, ru, sv, fr, etc.?  Thanks for any guidance you can offer!</p>