Canonical and Mirroring?

Discussion in 'Google' started by praveen1, Nov 2, 2012.

  1. #1
    Can anyone tell me what is Canonical and mirroring?
    I tried everywhere but does not find relevant solution for me...

    Please explain by giving easy examples.

    Waiting....
     
    praveen1, Nov 2, 2012 IP
  2. imfusa

    imfusa Active Member

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    From my knowledge, canonical urls are the same urls that point to the same product/article. For example you have site.com/category/product and site.com/product. Those are the different type of links that point to same info/product. It is advisable to add a rel="canonical" to the site.com/category/product, so it won't consume the page rank juice.
    Mirroring = when you have 2 sites with identical content. Legend has it that if you have two sites with identical or nearly identical content Google will drop one for sure and probably both.
     
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  3. praveen1

    praveen1 Member

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    Thanks SIR for ur valuable feedback..
     
    praveen1, Nov 5, 2012 IP
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    kokoloko Greenhorn

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    canonical link means 2 links pointing to the same thing. It's used to avoid duplicate content issue.
     
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    Dear.....Canonical links are the same url which point to same content and we use the canonical tag to inform the Google bot about duplicate issues in the same website...Secondly Mirroring means those website or page that's a complete copy (or "mirror image") of another existing site or webpage.
     
    deeprajncc, Nov 15, 2012 IP
  6. praveen1

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    your statement enhances my understanding more...
     
    praveen1, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    rk7734 Peon

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    URL canonicalization is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization process is to transform a URL into a normalized or canonical URL so it is possible to determine if two syntactically different URLs may be equivalent.

    On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site. Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads
     
    rk7734, Nov 22, 2012 IP
  8. praveen1

    praveen1 Member

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    Ok can you tell me how to resolve mirroring issue.

    I have site mysite.com/us---content A
    same site with another page of same content-mysite.com/au ---Content A

    How to enhance both page SERP?
    Actually i want to target one page as USA and other Austraila...

    Is there any way to select geographic location of both page separately as Australia and USA. What i see is that when i open webmaster and selecting geographic location to any one country --it applies for whole domain.
    Any way to select geographic target separately of both inner pages ---to one as Australia and other as USA.
     
    praveen1, Dec 27, 2012 IP
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    amit0535 Active Member

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    You can use this tag on your first page say link1 .( link2 is link of where second page)
    <link rel="canonical" href="link2" />
    not sure about
    enhance both page .
     
    amit0535, Jan 1, 2013 IP
  10. MichealAbrot1

    MichealAbrot1 Peon

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    first one is unique pages are second one is copied pages on internet....
     
    MichealAbrot1, Jan 1, 2013 IP