Canonical Tag

[j4shaw99]

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Just wondering if anyone has trialed using this new link element and if so seen much impact on SEO results?

[jmarch]

Have a look at SEOmoz | Canonical URL Tag - The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Sitemaps

Bottom line use a 301 redirect unless this option is closed to you.

If you want further clarification please elaborate on your question.

[kitbag.com]

We've deployed this on Kitbag.com about 2 months ago (as we knew we had a lot of duplicate content due to the way our urls work).

Not seen much any impact by way of changes in search results / organic traffic from Google, but the amount of pages Google has indexed on us has dropped quite a bit understandably. I see this as a good thing - we now have more relevant content in Google's eyes.

Traffic from search up slightly since deploying, although it's growing all the time naturally anyway (and the rate is not really any more or less since deploying)

Cheers

John Fitzpatrick
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www.kitbag.com

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