Comments on: Canonical Link Rel vs 301 Redirects: Using Canonical Link Rel tag for SEO purposes

By: Alejandro León

Alejandro León — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:01:17 +0000

Seems your Domain Name A to Domain Name B statement needs to be updated. Now it is possible (at least for Google):
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:23:18 +0000

Hi Will,

I personally prefer using the trailing slash. But as long as you’re condensing the link juice to one version (in this case, with the canonical link rel element), it shouldn’t matter which one you choose.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:31:56 +0000

Sorry my html was striped out last time….

I have set my canonical up without the trailing slash /.

So it looks like this…

link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.yourdomain.com”

and not this….

link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.yourdomain.com/”

Is this incorrect?

Will

By: Will

Will — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:27:15 +0000

I have set my canonical up without the trailing slash /.

So it looks like this…

and not this….

Is this incorrect?

Will

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