Mon 16 Feb 2009
What Is A Canonical Tag?
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo)Matt Cutts from Google shares tips on the new Canonical Tag that the 3 main search engines now support.
Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all agreed to work together in a joint effort to help reduce duplicate content for larger, more complex sites, and the result is the new Canonical Tag.
Example Canonical Tag From Google Webmaster Central blog:
<link rel=â€canonical†href=â€http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish†/>
You can put this link tag in the head section of the duplicate content urls, if you think you need it.
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can any body briefly define why canonical tags are used for?