Organic SEO Consultant

Happy New Year to all! I look forward to a great ‘08! Now down to business.

Canonicalization, wow that is a big word! Even the most savvy SEO guru will have trouble pronouncing it. But that’s OK, as long as they know what it is and how to fix it. Because almost every site that I come across has canonicalization issues. Matt Cutts had a good post about canonicalization from the Google perspective here. But what it boils down to is the idea that www.domain.com, domain.com, www.domain.com/index.html, domain.com/index.html, etc. can all be different pages in a site. So if you can type all of these variations of YOUR domain into your browser and the same homepage comes up then the search engines may be penalizing you for duplicate content!

So now you are feverishly typing these variations into your browser to check right? Well if not, then you better get going!

And right about now you are thinking, “well how can I fix this?” There are a couple ways. Now there is a section of Google’s webmaster console that allows you to specify to Google which you prefer, www.domain.com or domain.com. This was a very nice and welcomed addition to the webmaster console a while back. I believe that they added this to not only make their index more relevant but also because the community of webmasters was clamoring for it. My preferred way of solving canonicalization issues is to use the 301 redirect. My friend, former colleague, and current organic SEO specialist at Shopzilla, Michael Nguyen had a nice post on how to do this on an Apache server.

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