rel=”canonical” – Its official!
Finally some seo development. Big 3 (Google, Yahoo and Live) will soon be using rel=”canonical” tags in order to manage duplicate content on your domain name. The tag will be used in the header of your page next to meta tags. For example <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.exposedseo.com/wahtever.php”> will tell search engines that the page is a copy of http://www.exposedseo.com/wahtever.php. Fore more uses and information have a look at the original SEOmoz article. I don’t know when but I’m sure there will be a way to exploit this little tag soon.
It has recently been proven that duplicate content penalty only exists when the content is being duplicated on the same domain. Could this be an attempt to help webmasters sort this out? rel=”canonical” tag is said to replace 301 redirects which will make things much easier. Not only that, rel=”canonical” is only there for the spiders which means that the duplicate page will still be there for your visitors and won’t redirect to the original. Meanwhile, we just have to wait and see.
February 14th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I don’t thinks so,, but..let’s wait and see
thanks for share
February 14th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Thank you for the share Ilia, i’ll be more careful about this now !
but will the blog posting services like article spinning etc (there are many on the dp forums) who can submit your article to 1000 blogs in a minute with a click will that will that effect our overall rankings?
February 14th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Muneeb
The only thing that has changed is the ability for webmasters to control duplicate content on their own domain. However I would stay away from these mass submissions because usually such blog networks don’t stay up long.
February 14th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
LOL! Your always looking for the angle or the loop hole Llia I love it!
February 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Is the code working now…I have added it to my header..but doesnot seem to have any effect!!
February 18th, 2009 at 10:52 am
What exactly were you trying to achieve? First of all the code might not be actually working yet and secondly it should take a few days for search engines to re-index your page and de-index the duplicate.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Due to different webhosting issues that i have with my clients…this tag helped in a way for the 301 redirect Non-www. i implemented it 2 weeks ago and lets see the results …if it did effect !
~~Wissam D.
LebSeo Design
March 26th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Try this plugin: Canonical URL WordPress Plugin.