Canonicalization Prevention Guide

[kgun]

I searched this page for

preferred domain name (No hits)

and

Matt Cutts (Found Johns post with the link I had in mind)

This post is in the SEO sub forum.

What about Google's:

preferred domain name?

KW search:

preferred domain name site:google.com

[Azher Memon]

This is what I have been trying to know from long time. I found this thread is information rich on these topic.

Bye the my self Azhar from USA. I am working as SEO, SEM executive in one of leading IT company. I Love my job and so I am here to know more about it...

Thanks

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by Azher Memon

This is what I have been trying to know from long time. I found this thread is information rich on these topic.

Bye the my self Azhar from USA. I am working as SEO, SEM executive in one of leading IT company. I Love my job and so I am here to know more about it...

Thanks

Welcome Azhar. This is not an introduction forum and I was just wondering, how comes that you are from the US, but you are still an Indian company. Are you one of those Indian guys who like to spam the forums here?

[Azher Memon]

Yes I am basically form India and living in USA but I am not here for spamming...it was my first post so thought let introduce my self here if people not feeling odd or interruption.

Which thing made you feel that I am spamming here ??? If you are looking at my signature and feeling that then it is our company's one of main keyword which USA people are searching and we have our offices in USA, UK too.

still you are very experienced person so you can ban me any time when ever you feel I am going against of forum rules. I am respecting you.

any way thanks for quick reply(action) it seems it is active forum member here so will enjoy to post here..

nice to meet you

Regards
Azher

[Webnauts]

Nice to meet you too Azher. I guess you understood the rules here, and be sure I respect you and everyone else who have no intention to spoil the quality and reputation of the forums here.

See you later buddy.

[offshorewebservice]

Excellent information! I also frustrated about www vs non www site's problem, this information very important for me. thanx.

[A Phoenix SEO]

I talked with a potential client last month discussing a huge contract for 5 sites. So we where competing with some big players. The decision maker said I was the only one that mentioned this issue. That really surprised me!

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by A Phoenix SEO

I talked with a potential client last month discussing a huge contract for 5 sites. So we where competing with some big players. The decision maker said I was the only one that mentioned this issue. That really surprised me!

WOW. It would not have surprised you if he called me earlier.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by kgun

I

Matt Cutts (Found Johns post with the link I had in mind)

Do you mean John Mu?

[LeilerDee]

I always thought Canonicalization was a complicated SEO problem...turns out its really very simple! Don't judge words by their long-ness is a lesson gladly learnt.

This is incredibly helpful, thanks ..well..everyone.

[nashville]

So how can I test to see if I have this issue on

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[tushar123]

Thanks Wige.

[deepsand]

Will this be the end to this issue?

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[Webnauts]

For the ones who missed these news: Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes

[kruser]

Hello,

My understanding is that this can also be accomplished by placing

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php/>
OR
<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/product.php/>

in the head section of the HTML of a page named "product.php" .

[deepsand]

For new thread re. this subject, see New Canonical Tag from the big 3 .

[pbnj53]

Great info on this topic, but I have a question in regards to a true Canonical 301 Redirect. My site is established and has been around for about 10 years. I just recently did a canonical 301 direct. So what about all of the inbound links linking to the www. site? Will those links count toward the non www site, or do I just lose credit with the search engines for those links?

(edit) Oops, I just saw the subject on the new thread: New Canonical Tag from the big 3. I'll post the question there.

[martynb]

I've recently changed a website from the non www to the www version everything went OK lost ranks for about 2 weeks then came back good.

[shanemcdonald.org]

How can you do this if you have subdomains i.e. I have a website with 3 different sections - home - music - pictures
Each section has pages I want to uncanonicalize but when I tried rewrites the homepage and my blog started acting up.

[deepsand]

Without your posting the code that you're currently having problems with, and being a bit more specific re. "homepage and my blog ... acting up," none here can do more than but guess.

You may find the related thread at New Canonical Tag from the big 3 of interest.

[coolguy27]

Matt Cutts Discuss some of canonical issues by the rel=canonical tag.

See this video for more...

[nazar2k2]

hi to All
your discussion is amazing.very nice
Canonicalization is one of URL Error
so please avoid some thinks
Does flash content creates conical issue
Rewrite the domain
you check coding validation
after that u upload tour website.

Thanks

[LocalGoogleGuru]

up till now I thought all this canonical stuff had to do with people running dynamic sites or some CMS like droopal or what ever.

From what I'm seeing here, this is something I can do to my own plain jane shared hosting?

Why would I want to... are you saying just because we can be found under ourdomain and www ourdomain we might get penalized?

I can add what you posted to an htaccess file

I didn't know it was something I ought to pay attention to.

any clarification gang?
thanks

[wige]

The issue here is that incoming links get split between multiple variations of the same URL - since Google will only show one copy of the page, elimination of the canonicalization issues consolidates all of the incoming link weight and pagerank into a single page.

[LocalGoogleGuru]

umm, so let me see if I'm understanding this better:

it would seem to be to MY advantage to TELL google which one I want the Googlejuice to go to?

as opposed to me wanting "multiple bait" to use a fishing analogy, so in terms of googlejuice I want ONE hook with bait as opposed to a dozen lines in the water?

is that accurate?
thanks a bunch for taking the time to answer here btw

[wige]

Originally Posted by LocalGoogleGuru

umm, so let me see if I'm understanding this better:

it would seem to be to MY advantage to TELL google which one I want the Googlejuice to go to?

as opposed to me wanting "multiple bait" to use a fishing analogy, so in terms of googlejuice I want ONE hook with bait as opposed to a dozen lines in the water?

is that accurate?
thanks a bunch for taking the time to answer here btw

Pretty much. Google will only list one copy of a duplicated page, so consolidating the link juice from all the possible URLs into a single URL could give the page a little bump, or at least not waste that link juice on versions of the URL that Google will filter out.

[edhan]

I have no problem with my existing servers using the 301 redirect command for domain.com to wwwdotdomaindotcom. But now I have another hosting using cpanel and using this code seems to create a problem when running wordpress in sub-folder as it keeps redirecting back to the root directory of the domain.

Currently my wordpress blog is under the sub-folder as domain.com/wordpress/ and even if I added the .htaccess in the sub-folder for wordpress blog to default it as /wordpress/ it will still redirect back to the root directory. I have created sub-folder for other stuffs and accessing the sub-folder does not redirect to the root directory. This only happens to wordpress blog. I do not know what is the cause of just adding the redirect command in the .htaccess for the root directory that is now affecting the wordpress sub-folder to be unable to run my wordpress.

Any other solution where I can do 301 redirect from without www to the www domain?

Thanks!

[FoundByDesign]

Don't forget (didn't see this mentioned yet) that Google allows you to set a preference in the GWT as to whether you want www or not with your indexed content. If you don't yet have a Google Webmaster Tools account, that would be a great place to start!

[LocalGoogleGuru]

Doh!

I was thinking I'd have to mess with .htaccess to specify "use" www and not http://

which was a problem editing before I got notetabpro (editing in notetab messed up the formatting)

so you're telling me I can specify cannical in Google's webmaster tools?

It's been awhile since I took a peek in Gwebmaster tools, wonder what else I can fix, set, observe within there?

I *thought* the only reason to list a domain with G webmaster tools was to speed up the domain's indexing

[FoundByDesign]

Love the new rel="canonical" tag!

<link rel="canonical" href="PERMALINK HERE"/>

Brilliant!

[FoundByDesign]

Originally Posted by LocalGoogleGuru

Doh!

so you're telling me I can specify cannical in Google's webmaster tools?

It's been awhile since I took a peek in Gwebmaster tools, wonder what else I can fix, set, observe within there?

I *thought* the only reason to list a domain with G webmaster tools was to speed up the domain's indexing

As with anything Google, it is considered a "suggestion" by Google. But they do give you the option to suggest it to them!

301's are the best option if you can...
I am also beginning to employ the new
rel="canonical"
in which you add the preferred link for each page in the head of the page.

[deepsand]

Additional info. re. canonicalization at New Canonical Tag from the big 3

[zebru]

Is there a program one can use to open .htaccess and then put a script in it to solve Canonicalization problems. I have been given the sript sometime ago but do not know how to implement it. Are there any suggestions. Thanks

[deepsand]

No special program is required for modifying an .htaccess file; what is required is that you have access to it.

Perhaps this tutorial will serve to help.

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

[manasi]

hello
i am new in this field can u pls tell me the meaning of Canonicalization Prevention Guide

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by manasi

... can u pls tell me the meaning of Canonicalization Prevention Guide

This refers to the issues regarding how URLs such as "http://example.com" and "http://www.example.com" are to be treated.

Specifically, 1) are they to be treated as the same resource or different resources; and, 2) how to get Search Engines to treat them accordingly.

In addition to this thread, you might view that at New Canonical Tag from the big 3 .

[Oshine]

Should this line be part of the code you put in the .htaccess file? or is it describing what is below it?
########## Require to add trailing slash if not present to avoid cannonicalization issues ###

[deepsand]

The lines beginning with the character "# are Comments lines.

As such are ignored by the script processor, you can leave them in so as to document the purpose of each code section.