Comments on: Learn More about the Canonical Link Element

By: Bromley

Bromley — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:44:15 +0000

My site had a redirect in place pointing from http://mysite.com to http://www.mysite.com and although the redirect was set up properly, Google indexed the http://mysite.com version for the main page of the site but indexed inner pages with the http://www.mysite.com syntax. Placing a canonical link in the main page of the site corrected this. This is good because my hosting provider was stumped about how to fix it otherwise since htaccess redirect was set up just fine.

By: Charly

Charly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:52:09 +0000

Canonical link is good for some old projects but when you design a site you must design a good structure

By: Seo London

Seo London — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:24:48 +0000

Good video nice addition in Search Engines Algo.

By: Ani López

Ani López — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:46:25 +0000

canonical can help sometimes but first a good structure to avoid uplicated content, relevance dispersion and internal link leaking http://dynamical.biz/blog/seo-content-optimization/web-structure-duplicate-content-canonical-12.html

By: Bart Berlinski

Bart Berlinski — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:35:42 +0000

Hi Matt,

I’m SEO specialist at the biggest auction site in CEE, I’ve got 2 questions about canoncial link which will help me a lot.

1. Can I use canonical for url’s with added affiliate ID from our Affiliate Program? (i.e. the url is http://site.com/computers.php&affiliateID=10 will it pass the SEO link juice to http://site.com/computers.php)?

2. Can I use canonical at url’s with ended auctions? (i.e. if an auction ends we’ll automaticly put canonical to parent category where this auction was?)

Thanks,
Bart

By: Klaus Johannes Rusch

Klaus Johannes Rusch — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:48:01 +0000

@Ian M Said, the Windows file system can set to case sensitive. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817921/ for details.

By: Ian M

Ian M — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:33:34 +0000

By the way, it’s not just IIS that has case-sensitivity issues – Apache on Windows has the same issue. It’s the case-insensitive Windows filesystem that’s the problem.

By: li

li — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:48:37 +0000

A couple questions for this example:

example.com/page1?page=3
example.com/page1?sortby_price_asc
example.com/page1?sortby_date_desc

all have cannoical link points to:
example.com/page1

1. Will Google eventually or quickly remove all pages with canonical link element but just keep the page the canonical link points to?

2. Will this hurt the pagerank of example.com/page1 since different variance with different sorting algorithm would have different unique nature such as keyword density. WIll example.com/page1 be able to have all those unique nature or G will just treat it based content on example.com/page1?

By: Anthony Long

Anthony Long — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Hi Matt,

I noticed w3.org mentions the LINK element can be used to provide a variety of information to search engines. Besides “rel=canonical”, what other LINK element attributes does Google honor?

What are your thoughts on some of the examples given there?: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3.3

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:31:38 +0000

Hi Matt,

We use “?example” to tag the links on our site so that we can get more info about where people are clicking when we view our site overlay on Google Analytics.

As a result, we have multiple URL’s linking to the same page:

http://www.example.com/about.htm?topnav
http://www.example.com/about.htm?midpage

and of course:

http://www.example.com/about.htm

Would this result in duplicate content issues? If so, is there a “best practice” to “tag” links for better site analysis in Google Analytic’s overlay?

Thanks in advance.

Tom