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An interesting Google Webmaster Help thread discusses the old and new way of handling duplicate content. In the old days, you either 301 redirected page A to page B, when there was duplicate content.

Google updated their rel canonical documentation in order to clarify how Google handles the extraction of rel canonical annotations. The clarification is not meant to ...

This post will focus on the two main methods of managing the redirection of a single page on your website – the 301 redirect and the rel="canonical" attribute ...

Google’s John Mueller has advised that rel=canonical does not necessarily guarantee Google will recognize a page as the canonical version. This was stated by ...

Many webmasters will be happy to know that Google has announced its support for using the rel=”canonical” link element across different domains. This is important ...

Google announced they are now supporting the rel=”canonical” attribute within HTTP headers. This enables webmasters to set up a canonical for linking to or from ...