what is canonicalization ? Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages.The canonical tag will solve this issue now. A 301 redirect from either www to without or the other way around is a safer bet though. You can watch this video:
Matt Cutts explains about canonical tag...
http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/02...hoo-microsoft/ Canonicalization is the process of making something canonical -- that is, in conformance with some specification. To canonicalize (as well as the slightly less tortured variant canonify ) is to ensure that data conforms to canonical rules, and is in an approved format. Canonicalization may sometimes mean generating canonical data from noncanonical data.
Canonicalization is used for a variety of computer and Internet-related applications. In a sendmail context, canonification (or canonicalization) describes the process used to complete Mail-From addresses where necessary on incoming messages. When the canonify feature is turned on, a defined default domain name is added to the user name on an incoming message, so that username is translated to username@domain . Within the Extensible Markup Language ( XML ), canonicalization ensures that an XML document adheres to the specified format.
Here some guide about cononicalization: http://www.google.com/support/webmas...&answer=139066 Quote: Originally Posted by coolguy27 You can watch this video:
Matt Cutts explains about canonical tag...
http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/02...hoo-microsoft/ Coming from Cutts, you always know it's accurate.
Thanks guys for the post and the referrence to the Matt Cutts video. I needed clarification here too... canonicalization is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form.
And also define like this,
The process of establishing a single URL as the location of a web document. Ensuring that although you may be able to arrive to a page via multiple paths or addresses, there is only one final address which will be resolved by the server. Almost the same thing as a 301.
When you have a site that can be accessed with a www. and without a www. you use it to say that they are the same site. i too would like to know about it Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:
* www.example.com
* example.com/
* www.example.com/index.html
* example.com/home.asp
But technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a url, we try to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set. Quote: Originally Posted by alexchediak i too would like to know about it Read my last post.
Quote: Originally Posted by alexchediak i too would like to know about it I do hope you read all the replies in this thread before responding because i have found a few answers about this subject already in here. Using the canonical tag is no guarantee that Google will take your choice. Just to avoid any misunderstandings. Hope you have noted as, some sites with www version, non www version and some sites along with index.htm extension. These are said to be Canonical Url. In this case the link juice can be split. To avoid this issue, we need to redirect the website either with www version or non www version permanently. For this 301 redirection can be used. 301 redirection can always be search engine friendly Quote: Originally Posted by Jeff Collision Hope you have noted as, some sites with www version, non www version and some sites along with index.htm extension. These are said to be Canonical Url. In this case the link juice can be split. To avoid this issue, we need to redirect the website either with www version or non www version permanently. For this 301 redirection can be used. 301 redirection can always be search engine friendly Not only non-www and www versions are causing canonical problems. There are more versions than those two. For example:
www.v7n.comv7n.com/www.v7n.com/index.htmlv7n.com/index.html
Matt Cutts explains about canonical tag...
http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/02...hoo-microsoft/ Canonicalization is the process of making something canonical -- that is, in conformance with some specification. To canonicalize (as well as the slightly less tortured variant canonify ) is to ensure that data conforms to canonical rules, and is in an approved format. Canonicalization may sometimes mean generating canonical data from noncanonical data.
Canonicalization is used for a variety of computer and Internet-related applications. In a sendmail context, canonification (or canonicalization) describes the process used to complete Mail-From addresses where necessary on incoming messages. When the canonify feature is turned on, a defined default domain name is added to the user name on an incoming message, so that username is translated to username@domain . Within the Extensible Markup Language ( XML ), canonicalization ensures that an XML document adheres to the specified format.
Here some guide about cononicalization: http://www.google.com/support/webmas...&answer=139066 Quote: Originally Posted by coolguy27 You can watch this video:
Matt Cutts explains about canonical tag...
http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/02...hoo-microsoft/ Coming from Cutts, you always know it's accurate.
Thanks guys for the post and the referrence to the Matt Cutts video. I needed clarification here too... canonicalization is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form.
And also define like this,
The process of establishing a single URL as the location of a web document. Ensuring that although you may be able to arrive to a page via multiple paths or addresses, there is only one final address which will be resolved by the server. Almost the same thing as a 301.
When you have a site that can be accessed with a www. and without a www. you use it to say that they are the same site. i too would like to know about it Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:
* www.example.com
* example.com/
* www.example.com/index.html
* example.com/home.asp
But technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a url, we try to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set. Quote: Originally Posted by alexchediak i too would like to know about it Read my last post.
Quote: Originally Posted by alexchediak i too would like to know about it I do hope you read all the replies in this thread before responding because i have found a few answers about this subject already in here. Using the canonical tag is no guarantee that Google will take your choice. Just to avoid any misunderstandings. Hope you have noted as, some sites with www version, non www version and some sites along with index.htm extension. These are said to be Canonical Url. In this case the link juice can be split. To avoid this issue, we need to redirect the website either with www version or non www version permanently. For this 301 redirection can be used. 301 redirection can always be search engine friendly Quote: Originally Posted by Jeff Collision Hope you have noted as, some sites with www version, non www version and some sites along with index.htm extension. These are said to be Canonical Url. In this case the link juice can be split. To avoid this issue, we need to redirect the website either with www version or non www version permanently. For this 301 redirection can be used. 301 redirection can always be search engine friendly Not only non-www and www versions are causing canonical problems. There are more versions than those two. For example:
www.v7n.comv7n.com/www.v7n.com/index.htmlv7n.com/index.html