Maile explained that since the results on pages 2, 3, 4, and 5 are different from page 1, you should not use the canonical tag here. Not only that, if you do, Google may ignore it because Google uses ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In a Google SEO office-hours hangout Google’s John Mueller was asked whether rel canonical or the noindex tag was the best approach for dealing with duplicate and thin content in an ecommerce site.

Another common misuse of the tag occurs with multiple, related pages. For example, you might have written a long blog post on your site that you’ve decided to break up into five parts. Each of these ...

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO help document to add technical details on how to inject canonical link tags using JavaScript. Google added a new section titled ...