Comments on: Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes

By: Ligo Saint

Ligo Saint — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:08:42 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for the explanation. But I got one big question coming for my blog.
How to avoid duplicate content from tag in wordpress?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:10:53 +0000

Hi Matt,

I’ve watched your videos and the topic about Canonical Link here.
Your explaination about its theory is clear enough.
My questions
1. How to solve the repeated links in a real case? Do you have such a demo?
If I add a Canonical Link JUST in my preferred page (ignore other referred pages
as some of the pages are out of my control), will Search Engines like Google know
what I’m prefer and solve the issue?

2. How to track the result (see really problem solved)?

Thanks,

Daniel

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:24:43 +0000

Can I use the “Canonical” link element for my two similar domain names one having .co.uk and the other .com? Both have similar content and pointing to similar ISP company domain? Thanks

By: Kay Alexander

Kay Alexander — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:43:01 +0000

Dear Matt,
thank you for the info on canonical tags across domains. Within our family business my hubby writes the html and I do the SEO (I am not an html guru!) hence I was struggling with the whole “verify the www and non www” sentiment. I then used a tool called Woorank which I found extremely useful (hope its OK to say that on here!) and it pointed me to the canonical tag issue as one of the “problems” with a clients site. That led me to re-read and find out you have allowed the canonical across domains. The whole “www and non www” thing fell into place and – perhaps it is coincidence – my client has regained his page one Google position after falling to the top of page 2 ( HAVE also added some fresh content and had a tidy-up!). The canonical is now something I will always ask hubbie to do with a clients site – as best practice – and I am SO grateful that all this advice is freely available to fairly new (but quite succesful!) SEO people like me! Thank You Again.
Kay (in the UK – for me, you should be “Sir Matt”!).

By: Steffan

Steffan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:02:39 +0000

How about multi-country sites such as shopfactory.com and shopfactory.com.au ?
Based on this info above we should put lots of canonical links in for same content – but at the same time we are being told that websites which target a specific market should have an IP number range from that country.
I am scratching my head on this one. How can we rank in Australia and the US when we serve both markets with our product but are given different priorities in one market based on the IP number or URL compared to “local” companies?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:02:18 +0000

Do search engines find any value in a canonical tag pointing to the page it’s placed on?

example:
Putting in the head section of http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish

By: rayhanzhampiet (Indonesia)

rayhanzhampiet (Indonesia) — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:59:51 +0000

Hi Matt, I’ve tried to put the rel=’canonical’ tag to my blog but it doesn’t work. So could you give some me advise with this ? My fiends tell me that blogger.com does not support the rel=’canonical’ tag in their template, does it true ? I really apreciate if you send an email to me.

By: Beric

Beric — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:48:07 +0000

I learned the canonical tag the hard way. Some of our former tech nerd contractor played a wrong canonical tag on our website/ Manufactures. So the result was no listing on search engines for the brands! We changed that asap we found that problem. We will see how long it will take till we get listed?!

By: Wordpress User

Wordpress User — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:43:57 +0000

I run a wordpress blog and when I checked my blog statistics using Google Webmaster Tools, I found that each and evry article of my blog has “Duplicate title tag” problem in “HTML Suggestions” section of GWT.

The duplicate title tags are detected for each article in following format:

http://www.example.com/its-an-example-of-problem/
http://www.example.com/its-an-example-of-problem/?comments=true
http://www.example.com/its-an-example-of-problem/?postcomment=true

As you can see, the problem is occurring because of the extra comments=true and postcomment=true parameters in URL.

Does it happen for all wordpress blogs or I have some settings enabled for my blog which should be disabled?

Any kind of help would be highly appreciated.

By: Charlotte Bieri

Charlotte Bieri — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:45:25 +0000

This was a lifesaver for one of our dynamically driven sites where we had about three different versions of every page. Admittedly, I didn’t implement it right the first time but after I got the hang of it our site’s indexing went MUCH more smoothly.