Search engines fight duplication with canonical

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 18, 2009 12:37 AM EDT
Heise
Mail this story
Print this story

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are now providing a way for web site developers to specify a preferred URL for any piece of content on a web site. The problem has been that sites may, legitimately, have the same content on different URLs. This causes problems for search engines which can't easily differentiate between these duplications. Now, a new type of "canonical" link reference can allow a page to express the preferred URL for a search engine to use.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft, Ubuntu

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.