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Canonical Link Element

Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element. Resources: Blog post on Google webmaster blog: http://googlewebmastercentr... Yahoo blog post: http://ysearchblog.com/2009... Microsof...  
 
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akivathedog (1 month ago) Show Hide
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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 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Holy Cow 3,000 times for a sess id. Cutts is just getting funny with this stuff now.
Chexander (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Much respect to the cleaning crew

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FreshVampireApples (5 months ago) Show Hide
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You look like doug benson
davethetruth (7 months ago) Show Hide
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How does google treat links tagged with the Google URL Builder???? Are these considered unique links with duplicate content?
Apoc4lypse2090 (7 months ago) Show Hide
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What in the world are you doing, and do you even know?
extremeseo2010 (7 months ago) Show Hide
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Matt, this a very good explanation to all of us. Thanks!
ontheflipside200 (8 months ago) Show Hide
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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)?
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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
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