Canonical Link Element

Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element.

Resources:
Blog post on Google webmaster blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo...

Yahoo blog post:
http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fig...

Microsoft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archi...

Ask:
http://blog.ask.com/2009/02/ask-is-go...

Google Help Center documentation:
http://google.com/support/webmasters/...

Joost de Valk: WordPress, Magento, and Drupal
http://yoast.com/canonical-url-links/

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[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.

[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 ?

[Johan Paul]

Wow, Matt is an awesome crystal-clear-spoken lecturer. Thank you so much for explaining it very detailed.

[baconpron]

To be more clear. If I do /base/ to /base/month/week/, then each week the canonical url will change to the /base/month/week/(except during off season). However, if I do the /base/month/week/ url, then it will only be valid for the current week, and then removed a week later from the content as a result. It's no trouble for me to do either of these code wise, I'm just not sure if either is proper use.

[baconpron]

I have pages which are added on basically weekly basis in the year(sports seasons). These pages are located deeper in structure of the site, but the most recent week/addition is held in the shorter structure. So 1 link is /base/ the oher is /base/month/week/. Generally the /base/ is the one that will be linked to most, and is the most up to date content. But, when new information is added, the content of the page will not longer be the same. Should I do the base url, or the long?

[Emmett Smith]

Hey Matt,

Glad you shaved off the facial hair.

[MensWatchUK]

thanks matt

[efectivalemexico]

Muy bueno aunque todavía tengo dudas: ¿Es conveniente utilizar los rel="canonical" en los iframe? y si es así ¿cómo lo especifíco? Es claro que el contenido de los iframe lo utilizo en diferentes páginas que aunque es el mismo, en la totalidad de la página web no. Saludos

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