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I thought “canonical issues” were that you used both the http: and the [url]http://www[/url] for your site?
Seems to be a broader subject then…
It is my understanding that the term canonical in regards to websites includes anything where there might be more than one URL with the same content. That can include http:// v https:// or www. v non-www as well as any session ID issues.
You can fix any www v non-www issues in Google webmaster tools, but session ID fixes have to be done this way.
hmm
firstly, it would help if the guy in the video could pronounce canonical
secondly, it would help if he pointed out that canonical is only a “hint”.
thirdly, the canonical hint is only currently supported by google, altho bing claimed they supported it.Not sure why the poster is trying to re-invent the wheel.. that vid was pretty bad.
@pokerseo 214229 wrote:
hmm
firstly, it would help if the guy in the video could pronounce canonical
secondly, it would help if he pointed out that canonical is only a “hint”.
thirdly, the canonical hint is only currently supported by google, altho yahoo claimed they supported it.Not sure why the poster is trying to re-invent the wheel.. that vid was pretty bad.
1. I think I did ok, maybe my accent had an influence on it ?
2. In correct, but might take time for it to take effect, not sure how you meant hint.
3. Also incorrect Bing and Yahoo now support.Not reinventing the wheel passing along info to those who need it.
@casinojack 214231 wrote:
1. I think I did ok, maybe my accent had an influence on it ?
2. In correct, but might take time for it to take effect, not sure how you meant hint.
3. Also incorrect Bing and Yahoo now support.Not reinventing the wheel passing along info to those who need it.
1.hehe maybe accent, I hadn’t had my morning coffee, maybe that one was a bit below the belt, sorry.
2, hmm, you don’t know what a hint is, and you make the video regardless. this has got to be bad no?
3. bing and yahoo don’t both support it.. bing claimed to support the hint but actually doesn’t.FWIW , heres’ a video from matt cutts explaining the hint properly.
as I said, no point re-inventing the wheel (badly) when you can link to a good video covering the topic correctly.
your sunglasses are better than matt’s invisible sunglasses though
:hattip:that Cutss video is old and he is known for misleading people. When he was talking about that, the main issue they were addressing was the whole www v non-www thing. From my experience with some of the top SEOs I would say CasinoJack does a good job at addressing the issue in a minute for those curious people short on time.
Of course if you have an hour of free time, you can get more in depth elsewhere. Here is some more info and a good place to start: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical
@Gregger 214235 wrote:
I would say CasinoJack does a good job at addressing the issue in a minute for those curious people short on time.
well given the apparent gaping holes in his knowledge (above), I would say in this particular case that linking to cutts’ video is fine, and that his video is redundant. If you’re going to do something, do it right imho.
@pokerseo 214238 wrote:
well given the apparent gaping holes in his knowledge (above), I would say in this particular case that linking to cutts’ video is fine, and that his video is redundant. If you’re going to do something, do it right imho.
Thanks for the input, and would tend to disagree about the “gaping holes” in knowledge, but we are all entitled to an opinion.
While I agree Yahoo and Bing are behind , especially regarding cross domain canonical tags, I would say in the next quarter they will be supported by all 100%. there fore the coding you do today to prepare for the future is not a waste of time.
Again, in 60 secs is hard to get in all info but, the videos are meant to do what they did here, start a conversation. And of course SEO topics always have great debate. Thanks for watching and participating.
yep good for debate for sure, and let’s hope all SEs do indeed support the canonical tag soon. interestingly and usefully, you can now use the hint across subdomains.
Also of note, the All in 1 seo pack plugin for WPress (seemingly everyone’s favourite CMS) supports this tag, saving a lot of hassle for webmasters.
keep the vids coming, I just thoguht this one missed a few key points, nothing personal, and of course thanks for sharing sir.
I think the trend is going to point towards these tags being used more. I bet this one becomes a sticky topic like nofollows though. When google first used those, everyone else followed. After years of SEOs debating it finally came out that google wasn’t using them quite like they said they were. IMHO if you can avoid having to use canonical tags by having proper structure, that is the best idea, but if not, using them is better than not.
I’m sure in 6 months we’ll know just how important they are.
@Gregger 214242 wrote:
I’m sure in 6 months we’ll know just how important they are.
we already know.. It’s a veritable magic bullet cure for duplicate content innit !
And I love deabte. May times I have thought something, read a post by someone else, next thing i am not sure anymore,a dn need to do some of my own testing. Is very healthy.
From now on i will mispronounce one word per video for you to find; or better yet Ill do a video this month that is total rubbish
@casinojack 214245 wrote:
From now on i will mispronounce one word per video for you to find; )
lol reminds me of a book i had when i was a kid where you had to find this little yellow duck hiding somewhere on every 2 pages.
keep the vids coming man! cheers
Interesting post about this topic on SEOMoz:
