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Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:33:45 PM GMT

Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes February 15, 2009 in Google/SEO

Last week Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element to clean up duplicate urls on sites. The syntax is pretty simple: An ugly url such as http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 can specify in the HEAD part of the document the following:

That tells search engines that the preferred location of this url (the “canonical” location, in search engine speak) is http://example.com/pag...

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