Canonical Tag

Canonical Tag Flying Under the Radar?

Published July 20, 2009 | By admin

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This is a guest post by Craig Smith of Trinity Insight.

In early February of this year, search engine representatives within Google, Yahoo, and MSN (before it was Bing) made an announcement into a uniform method of embracing a new html tag to reduce duplicate content for a webmaster. This “canonical” tag, which would be inserted within the HEAD portion of any HTML document, is a great way to reduce potential negative affects that can happen when you have the same page indexed multiple times under a variety of URL’s Read more... (966 words, 2 images, estimated 3:52 mins reading time)