Dear Thorsten Rinne / Development Team
It is often referred that using ' rel=”canonical” ' in a <link> element [1] is a good practice even, at present time, not being part of (X)HTML5 standard [2][3] - specially for SEO (search engine optimization, e.g., “search engines” [4]).
Examples
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<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/faq/?solution_id=1234" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/faq/long-question-faq-text-rewrited" />
Could you please refer the files to edit in order to use “canonical” content in the home page?
Thanks in advance.
References
- [1] Or in the HTTP header - for other file formats (PDF,…): Kevin Graves. 2012-09-11. How To: Advanced rel="canonical" HTTP Headers. [http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advan ... tp-headers ]; Pierre Far [Webmaster Trends Analyst]. 2011-06-17. Supporting rel="canonical" HTTP Headers. [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. ... aders.html ].
[2] Robin Berjon et. al. 2012-11-06. HTML5. A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML. Editor's Draft 6 November 2012. [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#linkTypes ].
[3] It is the subject of the informational RFC 6596 : M. Ohye; J. Kupke. April 2012. The Canonical Link Relation. [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6596 ]
[4] Pierre Far [Webmaster Trends Analyst]. 2011-06-17. Supporting rel="canonical" HTTP Headers.
Other references
- • [SEOmoz]. Canonicalization - SEO Best Practices | SEOmoz. [http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization]. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
• Rand Fishkin [SEOmoz]. 2009-02-13. Canonical URL Tag - The Most Important Advancement in SEO Practices Since Site-maps. [http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-ur ... e-sitemaps ]
• [Google]. 2012-11-06. About rel="canonical" - Webmaster Tools Help. [http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... wer=139394 ]
• Matt Cutts. 2011-05-16. A rel=canonical corner case. [http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/ ].[“rel=canonical vs. 301s”]
• Matt Cutts. 2009-02-15. Learn about the Canonical Link Element in 5 minutes. [http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/]. [Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO].
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the software and other resources referred are based in our experiments: we don't officially recommend and/or endorse them.
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Kind regards
2012-11-07
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