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....
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.
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.
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
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.
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 .