Canonical and 301 Redirection Which is Best

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Hitesh Ji, Jun 7, 2013.

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    My website developed in PHP and all pages have .php extension. But i am using url rewrite facility for make url search engine friendly and coming with .html extension. So I have to know that I have to use canonical on each page to specify what version should be crawl by google or need to use 301 redirection.

    Please suggest me on this.
     
    Hitesh Ji, Jun 7, 2013 IP
  2. abdulmalick

    abdulmalick Active Member

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    301 redirection is best way to fix canonical issues. And also suggest to add rel="canonical" tag on html header.
     
    abdulmalick, Jun 7, 2013 IP
  3. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    Don't use the rewrite in the first place. To the search engines there are no differences between .php and a .html extension. You are doing unnecessary things that can only harm and not help.
     
    oseymour, Jun 9, 2013 IP
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    SASA Techno Active Member

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    Hi in my opinion 301 redirection is best for domain fix it.
     
    SASA Techno, Jun 10, 2013 IP
  5. sangeeta.ghodke

    sangeeta.ghodke Active Member

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    Yes! I agree with the above answers.
     
    sangeeta.ghodke, Jun 10, 2013 IP
  6. Monika.v

    Monika.v Greenhorn

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    301 redirect should be used as both the pages are same. redirect benefit you to land all your traffic on single page and also will not create canonical issue.
     
    Monika.v, Jun 10, 2013 IP
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    somanbangaree Active Member

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    oseymour is right here. Why are you doing this to your website? They are just extensions.
     
    somanbangaree, Jun 10, 2013 IP
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    SERPpoint Active Member

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    You shouldn't use redirection or you shouldn't change .php to .html, let it be natural for better result.
     
    SERPpoint, Jun 10, 2013 IP