Canonical Link Element

[agapitoflores001]

So this is how links work. Indeed there are lots of innovations happening every day. it makes people's life a lot easier.

[mr24bd]

Yeah I'll be at SES NY and the SEO haters run rampant,? just focus on the positive folks!

[koko90hoho]

so why then every time i click the cc button it give me asmall box written in it capition is not avalibal

[ArbitraryLifestyle]

Dub dub dub =)

[jsebean]

HAHA id say the web "evolved" by intelligent designers :P

[HoldOffHunger]

Also... Lots of websites have pdf versions of their files. How could we do the canonical version of that? There are two thoughts: 1) Google probably ought to give preference to a non-pdf file that has largely the same content as a pdf version, 2) It's possible to display a pdf file as an embedded plugin, but still -- it usually shows the direct link to the file within the source, which may get tracked instead.

[HoldOffHunger]

Great suggestions. The main reason I'd be interested in it is for "Printer-Friendly" version of pages, or "Handheld Friendly" versions, that posses the same content with different structure and style. CSS provides a way for styling media="handheld," but it's not widely supported across devices and completely ignored by browsers, just like media="print."

[TheVideoProofs]

Many of the popular content management software platforms do not grant free access to the Head section of the code. Will Google honor the rel="canonical" link element in the Body or even footer?

[JerichoMcLeod]

faggot



[boogiebuddy01]

yeah but how do you translate entire pages instantly to the language of my choice?

[bigal21110]

we implemented this for one of our sites and although it fixed the duplicated content errors in the webmaster tool, but also dropped quite a bit of organic traffic. So I am not sure if duplicated content is such a bad thing at times....

[edcabreranet]

This is good to know because i hear the opposite in order to get more links.

[sofieanna]

why does Google not make a tool to check your site if it is ok with the TOS and point out possible problems and give possibility to fix it, before you get an abrupt BAN of SERPS

[KevinBarnesTV]

This is exciting news!! thanks for the heads up..

[jovenmedia]

<3 Matt Cutts videos

[HolidayNova]

If I have a canonical tag with the same content but pointing to a url with different key words but the old url ranks better then the new canonical url, can that happen? I could have 10 old urls pointing to 1 canonical url & 1 of the old urls ranks better, this sound very black hat though. Is it?

I want to leave the old urls because they might change with my site, but I don't want to break links that I ahve promoted, I don't want to be penalized for this I hope only canonical url is used?

[adhpliz]

why is that not all videos have that CC button . For example i'm trying to watch a russian video and I want it translated but the video doesn't have the button . Would you please tell me what to do ?

[Sandman267]

Ha, cool Joost :d

[hspevolved]

absolutely fabulous tutorial. it solves all canonical problems in ten minutes

[glenwoodfin]

As good as it gets.

Thanks Matt.

[akivathedog]

Great video, very useful and well explained for users at all levels. Was interesting enough to watch the entire 20 minute video! Great Job! Sincerely, Jamie Dolan

[GrovePublishing]

Holy Cow 3,000 times for a sess id. Cutts is just getting funny with this stuff now.

[Chexander]

Much respect to the cleaning crew

12:28 / 20:28

[FreshVampireApples]

You look like doug benson

[davethetruth]

How does google treat links tagged with the Google URL Builder???? Are these considered unique links with duplicate content?

[Apoc4lypse2090]

What in the world are you doing, and do you even know?

[extremeseo2010]

Matt, this a very good explanation to all of us. Thanks!

[ontheflipside200]

You cite a url with a trailing slash as being a separate page from that of a url without the trailing slash; though I was under the impression that a browser performs a GET request specifying the page to retrieve (when at the root, this being "/"). So by that principal, how would a request even go out to the domain without (essentially) a request without the trailing slash? Is there any need to differentiate the two (being that, without the trailing slash, it doesn't exist)?

[gl3nnx]

matt is a great speaker

[panormania]

useful - as always - thanks Matt and all the googlers behind this

[teominatoryou]

Thanks for the video, this really shed some light on the canonical thing

[OdysseyArts]

Darwin belongs in the monkey cage with Galt, where they perpetually evolve into genocidal Eugenists. [Lose the Darwin.] What does "dub - dub - dub" mean?... Otherwise, great info.

[nicknam4e]

Thank you for the caption, we talk abour Video accessibility :D

[SearchEngineSEO]

Matt why are you not accepting video responces? Tags: canonical, link element, duplicate content, search engines, google. - see my video :)

[dannyhosp]

Great advice from Mr cutts will discuss this in our next development meeting!!

[freekzero]

Great new feature, thx. I've stuck to best practices to eliminate most duplicate content issues, but referrer tags have been an ongoing issue on at least 2 sites where I've done some SEO work. Great to have this tool to finally deal with that.

As to the video itself, please lose the subtitles, or at least make them way smaller. Matt speaks very clearly and at a good pace, so the text really isn't needed, and just gets in the way.

[GoogleWebmasterHelp]

Hi freekzero,

You can turn off the captions by hovering over the arrow icon in the lower-right of the video and then clicking on the CC icon.

[DeafTuber]

Freekzero, I disagree about the subtitles. Whether if the subject of this video SPEAKS clearly enough or not, there are millions of Deaf viewers who don't have the same convenience of listening to audio instructions like you do.

I understand you take it for granted but please realize that the subtitles are of utmost importance for a large enough number of us to actual warrant such a easy-to-implement feature, that doesn't "get in our way".

I thank Matt Cutts for subtitling this video; equally.

[freekzero]

Didn't realize the subtitles could be turned off. Seems they came up by default earlier, but not they don't. Thanks for that.

DeafTuber, you got me wrong. I got nothing against providing the option of subtitles at all, just don't think they should be intrusive and mandatory as these were earlier. I actually consider screen readers in every site I build, and volunteer web services to a disabled sports group (which includes some deaf users), so I am decidedly more sensitive to the issue than most

[MrApplianceRepair]

@freekzero I like the text.

[LifeSizeCustomCutout]

30000 products .... 301 redirects for every variation is amazingly stupid.... considering all the possibilities and url rewrites ..... good luck

[JKimbley]

dub...dub...dub... So annoying.

[SearchEngineSEO]

AMAZING !!

[gotecki]

Web evolution? Hmm...

First of all, stop using Arial right NOW.