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Canonical Link - good stuff - anyone using it? : HamishIs there some code we can...

Wed, 20 May 2009 18:53:47 +0000

Author: avalight
Subject: 2517
Posted: 20-May-2009 at 6:53pm

Hamish
Is there some code we can put in our header.asp file that will fill in the canonical link?
Thanks
curt

Canonical Link - good stuff - anyone using it? : Hi, Thanks for pointing this out,...

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:35:08 +0000

Author: Hamish
Subject: 2517
Posted: 27-February-2009 at 8:35am

Hi,
Thanks for pointing this out, it looks like an interesting enhancement and worthy of further investigation.

Canonical Link - good stuff - anyone using it? : I use the SEO work-around for...

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:09:12 +0000

Author: caughlan
Subject: 2517
Posted: 27-February-2009 at 1:09am

I use the SEO work-around for my store, but this looks like something I'd like to incorporate if anyone knows how. Google keeps indexing my gobbly-gook urls along with my nice clean ones. If I could tell it that there is only one it would make my indexing friendlier:

any thoughts?
stacelynn

From Matt Cutt's Blog:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

Last week Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announce support for a newlink element to clean up duplicate urls on sites. The syntax is prettysimple: An ugly url such ashttp://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 can specify in theHEAD part of the document the following:
That tells search engines that the preferred location of this url(the “canonical” location, in search engine speak) ishttp://example.com/page.html instead ofhttp://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 .