Canonical redirection meta tag [duplicate]

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How to use rel='canonical' properly 2 answers

There are two pages in my website with the same content; only the URL's are different: www.websitename.com and www.websitename.com/default.html. Someone suggested that I should add canonical tags to avoid them being considered as duplicate content.

Where should I add canonical tags and why?

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