For webpages which may duplicate some or all of their content with other pages (for legitimate reasons), the canonical URL is the URL of the page which search engines should link to.
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Right canonical pages for encylopedia-style site
I have a website that contains a lot of short (150 word) descriptions of key concepts. The concepts are organised hierarchically so a description of Cheese will be a subsection under the heading "Milk ...
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Tidy URLs in Google Analytics
My Google Analytics is catching a number of URLs where there is a unique GET parameter.
It also catches URLs like /pay and /pay/.
Is there any way I can get it to clean up the data and just see ...
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How do I hide a 301 redirect from my root domain?
I was analyzing my webpage SEO using an online tool where I saw that my http status for my root domain name www.caliberequipment.com was resulting in a 301 redirect to ...
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Difference between canonical and base tag
I am a little bit confused regarding the usage of canonical tags and base tags.
I have placed canonical tag (rel="canonical") on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed ...
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Should I use a canonical URL?
I'm currently in the process of building a charts website with music from Soundcloud.
The charts will be 'cleared' every week.
My base URL will be: http://example.com/
Which will contain the charts ...
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rel=canonical required for HTTPS?
I'm offering a page through HTTP and HTTPS, both with the same URL scheme. I.e., a page is available as http://www.example.com/page1.html as well as https://www.example.com/page1.html.
Should I add ...
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Single-page-apps and alternate / canonical URLs for mobile websites
I have a "normal" website and I am currently developing a mobile version of the site. Because of the complexity of the shown information, I am using a separate domain (mysite.mobi) and no responsive ...
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pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing
I have a module in my site which can be accessed like sitename.com/module/
This module has pagination.
In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all ...
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how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)
I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog.
I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes ...
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Canonical links and best way to use parameters with url rewriting
I use my own custom routing module in PHP and mod_rewrite. A typical main page URL looks like this:
http://www.example.com/services
There's a large part of the website that displays the products on ...
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Wrong canonicalization by Google
I had 2 pages with mostly same text and the difference being in Flash and cities names. So, Google started to think that those were copies of the same page and to index only the most popular of them. ...
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Blocking URLs and canonical questions
We are running a Magento store set up and was looking to block all pages with the exception of a select few.
It seems the only way we can do this is with blocking direct paths to files that are in ...
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How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?
was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website:
Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like
/de/somepage and rewrites them invisibly to /somepage?ln=de
so ...
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Robots.txt Blocking Blog Tags?
Tags are causing duplicate content on my website and I want to make sure that I block them from being indexed. Is this the right syntax to use for blocking those Tags from being crawled?
User-agent: ...
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Google not indexing/updating rel=“canonical” pages
I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages.
For example /A/1232 and /A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay represent same content but I wanted to give ...
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Why does Google Cache show our G+ page and not the correct page?
For some reason when we try and view the cached version of our website, we see our Google plus page.
We recently removed this code : <link rel="canonical" href="link to our g+ page">.
We ...
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Should you rel=“nofollow” on links which go to non-canonical pages [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should <a> tags with href=“#” use rel=“noindex, nofollow”?
If I have a page
http://www.example.com/blog/mypost/?section=attractions
which has in it's HEAD
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My WordPress site must be being affected by outside sources
Some of my pages are resulting in 310 errors (too many redirects). We recently switched domains from kgstiles.com to healthmasterysystems.com then discovered healthmasterysystems.com was listed as not ...
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How to structure dynamic product browser for SEO?
I will be building a new website for a client of mine. SEO is very important.
This website will have a product browser for cars, in which visitors can set feature filters to search for products that ...
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How to resolve canonical issue of a website hosted in yahoo small business (Shared Hosting)
I have a website www.myapp.com hosted in yahoo small business, which is shared hosting and I don't have access to .htaccess file to modify. I called up yahoo team regarding the issue But It cannot be ...
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Is there a way to do a site-wide 301 redirect or rel=“canonical”
I've got a blog running on a sub domain mirrored using this method on to a sub directory, so that the links come to my main domain not the sub domain..
Obviously this creates duplicate content. What ...
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Canonical link to a different domain?
I've got the same page and data available on multiple sites (on different domains), but only one of those sites is really that data's "home" and I want that "home" site to show up in search results ...
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Reach Local Proxy Page - Duplicate content?
We have a client who has instructed Reach Local to manage their paid SEO work etc. RL have created a proxy version of the page at http://example-px.rtrk.co.uk which mirrors the existing site ...
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How to tackle this duplicate content issue? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I've a new website coming up with 1000's of page which will contain some city codes. I'd ...
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Multilingual sites SEO and canonical
I'm in the process of improving the SEO in one of our client's multilingual sites. Currently the site passes a user the site in their preferred language by checking for a language cookie set by the ...
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Multisites Network SEO::Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel=“canonical”) inside article improve google rating?
Can self-referencing canonical tag(rel="canonical") inside article improve google rating?
The Case:
Company have 40 sites with original content and 1 main site with some of 40 sites articles.
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Google new algorithm: My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website
My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website with reference to their source.
Our articles write by high level processionals in the field ...
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Subdomain as home page
I'm looking at how best to launch a project using subdomains to create around 10 'minisites' of sufficiently differing content using the subdomain as branding. There will never really be much content ...
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Are there any possible pitfalls/issues that can arise from URL Rewrites?
I'm in the process of move a website for a client, utilizing a new theme. Usually this is straightforward enough but some of the base 'category' URLS they use are mess and they would also like to be ...
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How to avoid duplicate content in WordPress eCommerce Store
I run a WordPress eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. I have a large inventory of products and most of the product descriptions are the same for all products and it's mandatory to include it. It's ...
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Multilingual website URL & SEO
For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the hl query string, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
and compare the above URL with
http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
From the SEO ...
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Canonicals with differing content
Interesting conundrum here with canonicals. Lets say I have a site with a "verified" system where other websites can become so and so "verified". Their url to send people to confirm verification is ...
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Using rel=canonical and noindex in a 1-n partners enviroment
We sell a whole site (domain, etc) to partners that create content that is shown together at the main site. What we want to achieve is that the main site copy is the original, but the one that is ...
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Canonicalization of my site
I'm confused about canonical issue. I've setup in .htaccess to redirect the urls without www to www. one's.
My site is http://www.indiacustomercare.com .
Now the url's in this ...
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Canonical URL for paged results pages
If you use a canonical url meta tag on a paged result page, will Google still link to it when a keyword is found?
I have a forum which has multiple pages for each topic. 10 posts per page.
When I ...
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Avoid SEO loss after URL structure change
We recently re-wrote our site from Umbraco to WordPress. This has been done by third-party developers. I have been the project manager and it is my mistake that I haven't notice the change of URLs ...
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Unifying links for google searches
What method do you recommend me using, to tell Google that links like:
www.site.com/en/aslgm
www.site.com/ro/aslgm
www.site.com/es/aslgm
www.site.com/... /...
It's the same as www.site.com/aslgm ?
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pagination for product listing. what to use? canonical or rel-prev-next or do nothing?
I want to make sure my product listing is 10 products per page which are not in a series.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1663744&topic=2371375&ctx=topic
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301 Redirection - URL Canonicalization [closed]
I have already ask this question in Server Fault However, asking here also in order to get quick reply.
I have a load balancer F5 Big ip for my website. Currently, I am having 302 redirect in place; ...
