CopperBridge Media Blog » canonical http://www.copperbridgemedia.com/blog Bridging the Bytes... Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:33:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Playing safe with your duplicate pages… http://www.copperbridgemedia.com/blog/playing-safe-with-your-duplicate-pages/ http://www.copperbridgemedia.com/blog/playing-safe-with-your-duplicate-pages/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:19:16 +0000 Vince Buffon http://www.copperbridgemedia.com/blog/?p=60 Most webmasters have a taste of  ‘duplicate dragon’  at some point of time – Many times with serious consequences. While cross-domain duplicate content is handled pretty well with ’301′ or ’302′ ,  intra-domain & sub-domain duplicate content are left to Search engine’s whims.

A pretty simple solutions is at hand for webmasters  in directing the search engines to index  the preferred page.

Say, for example, Brad has a website – www.bradsdogcare.com

  1. It has  3 pages :
  • www.shepherd.com/dog-care.htm
  • www.retriever.com/dog-care.htm
  • www.terrier.com/dog-care.htm

The content for all the 3 pages are almost similar because of the size of the breeds – The only difference being the image in different pages.

But, Brad wants only the Shepherd page to be indexed…So what does he do?

He uses the rel = “canonical” attribute in the head section of the non-preferred pages , i.e. retriever & terrier pages

  1. <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.retriever.com/dog-care.htm“/>
  2. <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.terrier.com/dog-care.htm“/>

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