Hi All, In my new website I'm planning to target multiple regions, but the pages are in English, can anybody explain me about how to use canonical tag in each page, And if i use this canonical tag, the pages will be index by Google or not. for example MY main domain is WWW.example.com/services.htm and i plan to have same pages to UK region as www.example.com/uk/services.htm, www.example.com/uk/services/xyz.htm So, where i need to use canonical tag and if i use this tag whether i can bring this www.example.com/uk/services link in SERP. please explain me in brief Thanks in advance.
Just use this code models in your websites URL <link rel="canonical" href="http://WWW.example.com/services.htm"/> that's all.
thanks for your reply if i use this tag in this url www.example.com/uk/services/xyz.htm, then this page also will be index by google and we can get SERP in Google.co.uk
The first step in providing a canonical tag for the search engines is to decide where you may have duplicate content within your website. This isn’t always as simple as it may sound. Let’s recap a few ways that duplicate content might be a problem and what the canonical URL for those pages should be: Read the rest of this entry »
Canonical Tag is used in <Head> section of a site to prevent a site form duplicacy. Canonical Tag is <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.abc.com">
<link rel="canonical" href="your main URL"> write this code in the head tag of the other URL pages HTML code, which you want to redirect.
[TABLE] [TR] [TD="class: votecell"] [/TD] [TD="class: answercell"] If you use the canonical tag like this you will find that the canonicalized content will outrank all of the other regions content and this will skew your traffic. If you are happy to accept that (and off hand i dont know any other way) then put the rel canonical tag in the duplicated content and point it to the original. A good guide to doing this is here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]