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Canonical Link - good stuff - anyone using it?

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Topic: Canonical Link - good stuff - anyone using it?

Posted By: caughlan
Subject: Canonical Link - good stuff - anyone using it?
Date Posted: 27-February-2009 at 1:09am

I use the SEO work-around for my store, but this looks like something I'd like to incorporate if anyone knows how. Google keeps indexing my gobbly-gook urls along with my nice clean ones. If I could tell it that there is only one it would make my indexing friendlier:

any thoughts?
stacelynn

From Matt Cutt's Blog:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

Last week Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announce support for a new link element to clean up duplicate urls on sites. The syntax is pretty simple: An ugly url such as http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 can specify in the HEAD part of the document the following:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/page.html"/>
That tells search engines that the preferred location of this url (the “canonical” location, in search engine speak) is http://example.com/page.html instead of http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 .

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 27-February-2009 at 8:35am

Hi,
Thanks for pointing this out, it looks like an interesting enhancement and worthy of further investigation.

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Posted By: avalight
Date Posted: 20-May-2009 at 6:53pm

Hamish
Is there some code we can put in our header.asp file that will fill in the canonical link?
Thanks
curt

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Curt