How does Google determine the canonical source for a piece of content? Willy F., Chicago, IL Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for … [Read more...]
Do robots follow links on a page which uses rel=”canonical” to point to a different page?
On a website, if a page B implements a rel="canonical" link tag with URL of page A, do robots follow every links in page B? Ad, Paris Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video … [Read more...]
Will setting the rel=”canonical” attribute of a page to itself cause a loop?
Hi Matt, With canonical tags can you point a page to itself.? So if www.google.com/webpage points to www.google.com/webpage will this cause a loop? Mark James, Yeovil UK Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your … [Read more...]
Does Google support cross-domain rel=”canonical”?
"Hi, how does Google see cross domain canonicals?" Computerklaus, São Paulo, Brazil Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for an … [Read more...]
Is there an advantage to using rel=”canonical” over a 301 redirect?
Hey Matt. I had a lingering question about using rel=canonical vs. 301 redirects. It takes longer for Google to find the rel=canonical pages but 301 redirects seem to lose impact (link juice) over time. Is there similar churn with rel=canonical? Sam … [Read more...]
Can I specify the canonical of all of a product’s review pages as a single URL?
Yay or nay: Putting a canonical tag on individual product review pages that each points to the 'all reviews for this product' page for the particular product. Assuming we're not really that keen on the individual review pages ranking. Steve, SLC, UT … [Read more...]
Canonical Link Element
Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element. Resources: Blog post on Google webmaster blog: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com Yahoo blog post: ysearchblog.com Microsoft: blogs.msdn.com Ask: blog.ask.com Google Help Center … [Read more...]