A quick lesson about the canonical tag/element
by jp on April 14, 2009
Ever wonder how can you be sure that search engines do understand what is real name of your page you want to index?
Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your preferred version:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/product/123″ />
Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM[/youtube]
Resources:
Blog post on Google webmaster blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo…
Yahoo blog post:
http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fig…
Microsoft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archi…
Ask:
http://blog.ask.com/2009/02/ask-is-go…
Google Help Center documentation:
http://google.com/support/webmasters/…
Joost de Valk: WordPress, Magento, and Drupal
http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/