The new Canonical url rel-tag

Posted: February 13th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Google, SEO, Search engines, Web | No Comments »

I just read on SEOmoz that a new rel tag was announced to be supported by Search engines: "canonical".

From what I understand you will be able to tag different pages with the <link rel="canonical" href="original page url" /> tag.

This means that you’ll be able to cover a whole bunch of potential duplicate content within your site. A quick application for this would be the merging of pages that are typed case insensitive, for example:

  • /Page
  • /PagE
  • /PAGE

could all be marked as canonical to "/page".

For more information please read the canonical tag article on SEOmoz.

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