Comments on: What is a Canonical URL? http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/ B2B Marketing Blog Focusing on the Online Space Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:42:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jody Nimetz http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/comment-page-1/#comment-3655 Jody Nimetz Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:11:14 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/#comment-3655 Hi Rebecca, Sometimes you just do not know if you have duplicate pages (as CMS systems sometimes create multiple URLs of the same page). As an example of ducplicate content, your CMS might dynamically generate duplicate pages which might look like: example.com/redwidget example.com/redwidget121321$N=123 www.example.com/redwidget So you would place the canonicl tag on any identified duplicates as well as the true page that you want indexed in the search engines. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html Hi Rebecca,

Sometimes you just do not know if you have duplicate pages (as CMS systems sometimes create multiple URLs of the same page). As an example of ducplicate content, your CMS might dynamically generate duplicate pages which might look like:
example.com/redwidget
example.com/redwidget121321$N=123
http://www.example.com/redwidget

So you would place the canonicl tag on any identified duplicates as well as the true page that you want indexed in the search engines.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

]]> By: Jody Nimetz http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/comment-page-1/#comment-3654 Jody Nimetz Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:06:51 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/#comment-3654 Hi Thomas, In a nutshell you place the canonical tag on the true homepage and it should propogate through. The canonical tag can be used by all site owners and is not just reserved for larger e-commerce sites. Great questions. I would recommend setting up Google Webmaster Tools as well to address the homepage questions that you have as you can set a preferred domain through Google Webmaster Tools. Hi Thomas,

In a nutshell you place the canonical tag on the true homepage and it should propogate through. The canonical tag can be used by all site owners and is not just reserved for larger e-commerce sites. Great questions. I would recommend setting up Google Webmaster Tools as well to address the homepage questions that you have as you can set a preferred domain through Google Webmaster Tools.

]]> By: Thomas http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/comment-page-1/#comment-3402 Thomas Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:58 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/#comment-3402 How do you cannonize a non www and a www home page? Also is this something that the everyday website owner should worry about. Or is this reserved for larger sites...like an e-commerce website? How do you cannonize a non www and a www home page? Also is this something that the everyday website owner should worry about. Or is this reserved for larger sites…like an e-commerce website?

]]> By: Rebecca Myers http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/comment-page-1/#comment-2467 Rebecca Myers Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:34:08 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2009/what-is-a-canonical-url/#comment-2467 Hi Jody, What qualifies as duplicate information on web pages (in the context of canonicalization)? Can you point me to an example of duplication? How do I know if I''ve got duplicate information on my pages? Thanks! Rebecca Hi Jody,
What qualifies as duplicate information on web pages (in the context of canonicalization)? Can you point me to an example of duplication? How do I know if I”ve got duplicate information on my pages?
Thanks!
Rebecca

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