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Comment on Canonical URL Tag – Dealing with Duplicate Content by Mark Petherbridge

Mark Petherbridge — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:55:58 +0000

I have not delved into SEO and I know that it’s something that I definitely should, and because of this I am probably about to make myself look stupid because I have no idea how crawlers and engines work. But In the case of PHP, when you use this method to display something simple like the current page you are viewing, for example:

I know there are better ways to do this, as stated just an idea.

How does the search engine then see this as two pages? I thought that it would crawl your site and take the information about your pages and then store them or whatever. But this isn’t an actual page until it’s in action, so unless the crawler just so happens to see the page when someone uses it??

Comment on Canonical URL Tag – Dealing with Duplicate Content by Vijay simha reddy

Vijay simha reddy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:44:31 +0000

Really good stuff, I would like to know ans for some queries

1. Can we do Canonical between two different domains

2. If yes, what HTML code we need to use

3. where that HTML code should be place

4. what are uses by doing this

Comment on Tracking your search engine optimisation results by VNOHosting » Tracking your search engine optimisation results | Ash Young

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:27:10 +0000

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Comment on Canonical URL Tag – Dealing with Duplicate Content by Ash

Ash — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:45:06 +0000

As far as I’m aware search engines will index pages with parameters within the URLs but only upto a certain point when they realise duplicate content is being served under different URLs.

Comment on Canonical URL Tag – Dealing with Duplicate Content by DG

DG — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:45:10 +0000

I thought search engines wouldn’t index URLs with parameters in them – unless you override this in e.g. a sitemap.xml file?

Comment on Canonical URL Tag – Dealing with Duplicate Content by Ash

Ash — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:56:40 +0000

The issue with the form POST approach is that it breaks the back button on a number of browsers. It also forces you to use images or JavaScript as the sort by links in order to submit the form.

Comment on Canonical URL Tag – Dealing with Duplicate Content by M Smith

M Smith — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:19:40 +0000

Would it not be better simply to have a form with a hidden ‘orderby’ field and POST the data so it doesn’t appear in the URL at all? That way you’ll always have the same link regardless of the way the content is displayed.

Or have I missed something? :\

Comment on Incompetent UK2 & Terrible Customer Service by Ash

Ash — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:47:55 +0000

At Evoluted we normally hold our domains with a single provider no matter who is hosting the site. In this case I didn’t as it was personal site – lesson learnt!

I think I’ve fixed the issue with the comments icon at the top of the post – it now links down to the correct place.

Comment on Incompetent UK2 & Terrible Customer Service by George Haynes

George Haynes — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:40:44 +0000

We do something similar to Dayvi as we had terrible trouble getting domains back from our original hosting company.

Comment on Incompetent UK2 & Terrible Customer Service by Dayvi

Dayvi — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:44:44 +0000

That sucks.

I have my domains with a separate company to the hosting to avoid trouble.

Trying to post a comment on this blog is un-intuitive (button at the top, form at the bottom) o_0