Assume the following: Ecommerce site with individual pages for each product the store carries. Our SEO decided to use the canonical tag on our product pages. Let's say the URL for a product is: His ...

When you need to redirect a website or individual webpage to a different location, there are a number of different tactics you can employ. Each comes with their benefits and their problems, but if ...

The web is full of duplicate content. Search engines try to index and display the original or “canonical” version. Searchers only want to see one version in results. And site owners worry that if ...

A complete introduction to all the meta tags a webmaster may need when creating or optimising a webpage for SEO. Everything will be covered here, including: Title Tag, Meta Description, Alt-Text for ...

Technical SEO can feel overwhelming due to the many terms involved. This is especially true for today’s topic, rel canonical. In this video, I’ll explain how and when to use a canonical tag and ...

A WebmasterWorld thread has one example of such use. For example, you have a category landing page with ten results per page, and let's say five pages for pagination. So you have a total of 50 ...

When Google announced support for the canonical tag just about a year ago, webmasters were excited for the possibilities of a serving a 301 redirect to spiders but not users. But when should you not ...

Picture your content as you do yourself. Are you carrying some baggage you could get rid of? Carrying something you want to keep but maybe want to repurpose or see differently? This is no different ...

Last week, someone accused me of being too technical when describing geo-targeting settings — it followed a conversation where I was told that one of my discussions was not “advanced” enough! So, I ...

Canonicalization is loosely connected to search rankings, but would it be a stretch to call it a ranking factor? You may have heard that the rel=”canonical” tag ...