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  • SEOmoz | Canonical URL Tag - The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps

    The Canonical URL tag attribute is similar in many ways to a 301 redirect from an SEO perspective. In essence, you're telling the engines that multiple pages should be considered as one (which a 301 does), without actually redirecting visitors to the new URL (often saving your dev staff... more

    Reviewed by v666 Feb 13 2009, 02:38am ( 5 reviews ) seomoz.org

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  • Reviewed by verasempre on Aug 22, 3:45pm

    canonical url
  • Rated by Anuja-George on Feb 14 2009, 4:32am

    From the page: "The announcement from Yahoo!, Live & Google that they will be supporting a new "canonical url tag" to help webmasters and site owners eliminate self-created duplicate content in the index is, in my opinion, the biggest change to SEO best practices since the emergence of Sitemaps."
  • Rated by AlainSaffel on Feb 13 2009, 9:00am

    Explaining a little more how the canonical tag will work and the issues surrounding it.
  • Rated by imran033 on Feb 13 2009, 3:20am

    URL Issuues, seo
  • Rated by v666 on Feb 13 2009, 2:38am

    The Canonical URL tag attribute is similar in many ways to a 301 redirect from an SEO perspective. In essence, you're telling the engines that multiple pages should be considered as one (which a 301 does), without actually redirecting visitors to the new URL (often saving your dev staff considerable heartache).