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Canonical tag particularly useful in cases such as e-commerce where session ID's, filters and such sorts or other parameters cause duplicate content that you can't redirect without fudging something functionality wise. The canonical tag indicates what should be the 'primary' page to search engines. Something I've seen happen quite a lot, especially on CMS' and E-Commerce packages is sticking in the canonical tag on the template. This will make the canonical tag site-wide but using the same URL rather than being applicable to individual pages. You may notice a drop in the number of your pages indexed if you happen to do this! Remember though, in many instances you may not need the canonical tag. A 301 may be a better choice depending on the circumstances.

Hi Rallport - long time no speak! Correct about the xml.gz compression. We're talking well over 50,000 URLs here. So I wanted to know if there is software available (or equivalent, anything that solves the issue) that can compress 50k URLs and more automatically. It then needs to be able to recognise new pages and page deletion and adjust the sitemap.xml appropriately. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks Sogo7 for the input, yes, getting them indexed is a different matter. Regarding your other post unfortunately Rallport, it's not always that simple. It's good practice to provide an XML sitemap and especially in the case of much larger sites, it can help increase search visibility and provides another way to specify canonical URLs. Cheers again! Any help on the sitemap front will be useful!

Hi all! Wow, been a while since I posted on here .... Does anyone have any idea of some server side software that will automatically generate a new sitemap.xml file (and automatically remove from the XML if a page is deleted) for websites with over 10,000 pages? With over 10,000 that means likely index files with GZIP sitemap.xmls will be required, so this functionality is also important. If anyone has ideas, would love to hear them. Found a few already, but wanted more ideas! Thanks in advance!

Hi all! How long since I last posted? The new layout looks insane - nice job! Any hoo, I need a .NET/SQL CMS that can just plug in and play nice (and SEO friendly) with a .NET technology infrastructure. Can anyone make any suggestions regarding a good, reliable CMS with excellent SEO capabilities (by that I mean, tangible URLs, friendly URLS, editable meta data, canonical adjustment etc etc) that they think is good. Going to be used as a blogging. Thanks very much peeps, looking forward to getting the feedback! Dave

Great help guys! Thanks again, trying this and will provide feedback! Thanks again!!! @SEODave

Hi guys! Can someone tell me how I would go about placing a latest blog snippet on a seperate HTML page please? For example, main domain is www.domain.co.uk (NOT wordpress) News is on www.domain.co.uk/news (Wordpress) How could I get a snippet from the latest blog post to show on the home page? All suggestions welcome, appreciate the feedback! SEODave

Evening! New iPad just around the corner, current ones are going cheap, Orange have teamed up with T Mobile and are doing them at £99.00 and a 24 month contract for £27.00 per month with 1GB a month, free BT Wifi. I'm VERY tempted, but I think I need some neutral opinions. Anyone already gone for it? Should I, shouldn't I? I need some help please! Before anyone asks, not really interested in the new one at the moment, so happy with the current model that's out. Cheers all!

Hi Juc1 This tool will do exactly that: http://goo.gl/qvpDi Bear in mind though it's accuracy can be unreliable like most other things. I find anything beyond page 5 and I'll use the numbers it gives me, anything in the top 3 you should be manually checking though. Hope that helps! @SEODave

>sighs< Search Engine Optimisation - you gotta love it

Not without any content it won't! Get some content on the page! And then, to get anywhere near the top 3 pages, you're going to need a whole lot more content & links. Regarding traffic - have you checked out the Google KW tool and looked at their estimated monthly traffic levels against competition? To get an idea this might be worth doing. Just bear in mind that it is only estimated and taken on an average over 12 months so seasonal market changes aren't accounted for. Hope that helps! @SEODave

Completely agree. The URL you gave is just redirecting after 10 seconds, with nothing on it and a delayed redirect to http://www.animalbase.co.uk/ I don't think will get you anywhere anyway. Additionally, there's very little content, so it's just a splash page. Splash pages and SEO don't go well together, so I would strong suggest removing this. Google has indexed the site: http://www.google.co...imalbase.co.uk/ I'm assuming this is a fairly new URL? That being the case concentrate on building content and links. Hope that helps! @SEODave

Hi Eva White hat all the way, you can still get away with some grey hat stuff if the website has enough authority. Big no no to all black hat, some people still try because they'd rather risk loosing business than gaining it. SEODave

Hi all! Hope everyone's well, Friday tomorrow, that means it's almost the weekend! A new blog of mine has gone live today, something I wanted to share with everyone: 8 tips to optimise your product detail pages Very interested to know other people's ideas on this subject so please comment, chuck it here or talk to me on Twitter. If I can gather enough ideas, I may well write another blog summarising it all. Thanks guys, hope it's useful! @SEODave

Lol, have you tried 123-reg.co.uk? They're about £6.00 for a .co.uk domain at the mo, not seen any cheaper around. Not sure about .com's off the top of my head. Glad they helped! Anything else I can do, let us know! SEODave @seodave

Hi Boss! As far as I'm aware there isn't an issue with this. Just remember to use a 301 redirect and check the header status is correct. You can use this tool for that: Header Status Tool. Remember also to ensure your canonicals are sorted, - the non-www is redirecting too, as well as the www. Additionally, you can also use DNS to do this. Here is an article over at Google Webmaster Central about pointing multiple domains at one website. Hope that helps! ST @seodave