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shennon
02-25-2009, 02:05 AM
Hey Guys,

Google has recently released a new type of <link> attribute. It's the rel="canonical" attribute. This attribute is used to specify a preferred domain, so that Google bots don't penalize you for duplicate content.

This is very useful for dynamic sites and forums.

Read more here: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Robdale
02-25-2009, 05:41 PM
Already heard about it. Old news now...

shennon
02-27-2009, 07:36 AM
Hi,

Well, I didn't find such thread about it over here so I thought to share. Well, I also came to know that Yahoo and MSN are also supporting this new attribute.

shakir
03-02-2009, 03:00 AM
Since few weeks all are talking about it... any how its nice to avoid duplicate issue from G

bob
03-02-2009, 05:05 AM
How that attribute will be treated by other search engines?

Oracle
05-16-2009, 12:32 AM
As you all can see google is everyday providing one or the other new thing to its members.I think that this attribute is going to help alot us alot ..

Jenie0109
06-09-2009, 02:31 AM
yeah me too..already heard that..but no one can prove yet that t'was working...

bermuda
06-13-2009, 11:40 PM
It has also been recently used as a plugin offered for the Wordpress blogs but it is not of great importance. Using or not using it will not create huge difference over the net.

arslan220
07-11-2009, 03:54 AM
thanks for very useful information.

flickspoint
03-31-2015, 02:49 AM
Canonical issue is very harmful issue for website ranking. you should avoid them