Comments on: Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/tracking-codes-canonical-url-tag/ News media. Audience development. SEO and social media marketing Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/tracking-codes-canonical-url-tag/#comment-187 The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:50 +0000 http://www.adamsherk.com/?p=108#comment-187 [...] same piece of content existing on multiple URLs – in some cases quite a large number of URLs. The canonical URL tag is a good way to mitigate this [...] [...] same piece of content existing on multiple URLs – in some cases quite a large number of URLs. The canonical URL tag is a good way to mitigate this [...]

]]> By: Adam Sherk http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/tracking-codes-canonical-url-tag/#comment-19 Adam Sherk Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:38:35 +0000 http://www.adamsherk.com/?p=108#comment-19 Hi Mary, There shouldn't be any harm in having a canonical URL tag on every page (regardless of whether or not duplicates exist), and some sites are now setting this up as the default in their content tool. However since the tag is still fairly new and we're still learning how the engines are responding to it, I would limit its use to page types that you know have duplicate content issues (such as URLs you are appending with tracking codes). There is some more information and basic case studies in this conference session summary from last week: http://outspokenmedia.com/seo/canonical-tag/ Hi Mary,

There shouldn’t be any harm in having a canonical URL tag on every page (regardless of whether or not duplicates exist), and some sites are now setting this up as the default in their content tool. However since the tag is still fairly new and we’re still learning how the engines are responding to it, I would limit its use to page types that you know have duplicate content issues (such as URLs you are appending with tracking codes).

There is some more information and basic case studies in this conference session summary from last week: http://outspokenmedia.com/seo/canonical-tag/

]]> By: Mary Bettinson http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/tracking-codes-canonical-url-tag/#comment-18 Mary Bettinson Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:11:23 +0000 http://www.adamsherk.com/?p=108#comment-18 Hi Adam, We met at an SES show a while ago. This is great information we can use for our own client sites. Tracking codes have always been a stickler for large sites. Do you recommend inserting the canonical URL tag on every page of a site, or only those that exhibit tracking codes? Hi Adam, We met at an SES show a while ago. This is great information we can use for our own client sites. Tracking codes have always been a stickler for large sites. Do you recommend inserting the canonical URL tag on every page of a site, or only those that exhibit tracking codes?

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