New rel="canonical" URL - your views?

zeruel · Post by **zeruel** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:50 am

So what's your view on the new Google's rel="canonical" URL?

Have you tried it?

Here's the link:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. ... nical.html

artificialturf · Post by **artificialturf** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:17 am

Hmm, that sounds interesting, but I can see how it could also lead to abuse. Does that mean that I will no longer be punished for having multiple websites with the same contant as long as I list them as canonical?

mdamin76 · Post by **mdamin76** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:12 am

Seems as a new attribute. Will try in my next project.

VladTepes · Post by **VladTepes** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:31 am

Hope that would help the first and original publishers against copiers around...

seosean · Post by **seosean** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:25 pm

It seems to be pretty good. I'm glad that released that, although I've already though of some ways I'm sure spammers will exploit it.

sam09 · Post by **sam09** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:22 pm

Hey,

It sounds great attribute and quite useful in case of dynamic urls.

thanks...

seo.doc · Post by **seo.doc** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:33 pm

This will be great in order to target the specific page you want to be crawled even though it has like merely have an identical page.

therence · Post by **therence** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:55 pm

didn't try yet. how effective it is by the way?

India58 · Post by **India58** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:00 am

Must study this new method too

YooHee · Post by **YooHee** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:09 am

i think i saw this topic on the other forum

but that tag is good it helps to minimize the number of duplicate sites in the net

los_angeles_sales_trainin · Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:50 am

This method is especially important for people who don't know or not able to do a proper 301 redirect to avoid duplication of content.

seo.doc · Post by **seo.doc** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:26 am

angelina12 wrote:I think this is the good way to stop duplicate content of our website.

Yeah other major SE's are part and do support his and they agreed to use this tag. Mainly to deal with rapid growth of dupe content issues.

tomasmatt · Post by **tomasmatt** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:54 am

Helps reduce duplicate content indexed by google... I thik it is good

YooHee · Post by **YooHee** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:09 am

yeah that's a good tag now...

i wonder no website owner use that tag.... so that no body will duplicate

their site tsk

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