January 16, 201313 yr Would I be completely out of line if I asked the following question: If I have managed to correctly set up a 301 redirect to avoid the whole duplicate pages issue (.index.html being seen as a separate page from the root url), do I need a rel="canonical tag as well? If so, does the set up include simply adding the link - <link rel="canonical" href=http://www.example.com/> to the <head> section of the index page only in this case?. Or is the 301 redirect enough for seo purposes? Please advise. Thank you in advance.
February 24, 201313 yr Author It doesn't matter exactly where between the <head> & </head> tags the <link rel="canonical" href=http://www.example.com/> tag appears does it?
March 7, 201313 yr You would use 301 to move a page location. You would use a canonical on an index page to say that the urls yourdomain.com, yourdomain.com/ and yourdomain.com/index.html is in fact all one page.
May 10, 201313 yr The canonical tag is a new tag proposed by Google, designed to minimize crawl errors and the indexing of duplicate content in your website.
May 16, 201313 yr Setting your preferred domain tells Google which version of your site's URL you prefer. Specify the canonical link for each version of the page.
May 29, 201313 yr Canonical is a value written in ‘rel’ field of the link tag. If search engines come across a webpage with canonical tag in it, they understand that it is the duplicate version.A URL is provided in the link tag which points to original version of the content.
June 5, 201313 yr A 301 redirect is a permanent redirection of one URL to another. Rel=”canonical” – This element is added to the head of the page, and suggests to the search engine, “ignore this ugly URL, and instead only look at this pretty URL.” It looks like this: <link rel=”canonical” href=”www.example.com" /> Edited June 5, 201313 yr by Lyndsey removed spam link
June 17, 201313 yr For Multiple Versions of the Homepage - I recommend 301 redirectThis is another common mistake. Potentially a homepage URL could be access through the following means, depending on how it has been built -http://abc.comhttp://abc.com/home.htmlhttp://www.abc.com/index.htmlIf the homepage can be accessed via these type of URLs, they should 301 to the correct URL which in this case would be www.abc.com. The exception would be if these multiple versions of the homepage served a unique purpose, such as being shown to userswho are logged in or have cookies dropped. In this case, you'd be better to use rel=canonical instead of a 301.
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