What do you mean by Cananocalisation? What is the use of this on page strategy? what are the steps to follow to create this? Thanks a lot in advance.
A process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form. This can be done to compare different representations for equivalence, to count the number of distinct data structures, to improve the efficiency of various algorithms by eliminating repeated calculations, or to make it possible to impose a meaningful sorting order.
Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices. For ex:- www.abc.com abc.com abc.com/index.html www.ab.com/index.html Most of would consider these the same url. But technically all are diff. Server could return diff. result for all the urls above. When google canonicalizes a url pick the url that seems like the best from the above set. For more read this:- http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066
It's abbreviation is that abbreviated c14n, where 14 represents the number of letters between the C and the N.
canonicalization is the option for selecting the best url for search engine spider. Mostly using for avoid the duplicate content issues.
Did you mean canonicalization? Further reading is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization www.rankwell.co.uk/avoiding-canonicalisation-of-your-url.htm
Sometimes, you have a few versions of the same page but under diffrent names. For example, your home page could be: www.example.com www.example.com/index.html www.example.com/index.php All these versions of your website are seen by search engines as different pages hens meaning duplicate content. By using a canonical tag, you are telling the search engine that no matter which version of your home page he falls on, the one in the canonical tag is the right one. Here is code for a canonical tag: <link rel=â€canonical†href=â€http://www.mysite.com/†/> Obviously replace "mysite" by your domain name. Include this in the <head> section of your code.
I think You should Read This article . nobleriver.com/Articles/ArticleDisplay.aspx?Article=What-is-canonicalization-Reasons-And-Fixes.htm
Nice information metaseo, I never totally understood what this meant but I pretty much got it. Also thanks for the code as I just added that to my site.