Difference between 301 redirection & canonical tag?
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The 301 is a 'permanently moved' header redirect. The user and bots will be redirected to the new url of the content.
Canonical meta tags are on the page and define which url the page should be indexed as. This is used when you have one or more url parameters that might resolve that same content. The idea is tell the bot which url to index that content as to help eliminate/reduce duplicate content issues.
If you have multiple dynamic urls that all point to the same page, your page may be indexed for each. Even if/when google determines which url to index if it recognizes the duplicates, it may be as ?a=1. Using the canonical tag to tell the bot that it should be indexed as ~page.html resolves most of these kinds of issues.
Punchline, it's almost always beneficial to include a canonical meta tag in your page. If the page has been moved from one url to another, then a 301 should be in place for it. It's not which you should use, it's when should you also use a 301.
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Hi,
Do you think that the canonical link tag should be included on all sites or just where you have variables and issues with similar pages being indexed?
I had a collegue that included canoncial links on all his sites, even if they had no variables and no chance of page duplication, i just couldnt see the point?
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Originally Posted by cwcs_hosting
Hi,
Do you think that the canonical link tag should be included on all sites or just where you have variables and issues with similar pages being indexed?
I had a collegue that included canoncial links on all his sites, even if they had no variables and no chance of page duplication, i just couldnt see the point?
What do you think?
I only include canonical link tags on pages that actually have variables and a good chance of page duplication.
Telling Google that a page is the same as itself, is just strange anyway
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Originally Posted by Skinny Vinny
The 301 is a 'permanently moved' header redirect. The user and bots will be redirected to the new url of the content.
Canonical meta tags are on the page and define which url the page should be indexed as. This is used when you have one or more url parameters that might resolve that same content. The idea is tell the bot which url to index that content as to help eliminate/reduce duplicate content issues.
If you have multiple dynamic urls that all point to the same page, your page may be indexed for each. Even if/when google determines which url to index if it recognizes the duplicates, it may be as ?a=1. Using the canonical tag to tell the bot that it should be indexed as ~page.html resolves most of these kinds of issues.
Punchline, it's almost always beneficial to include a canonical meta tag in your page. If the page has been moved from one url to another, then a 301 should be in place for it. It's not which you should use, it's when should you also use a 301.
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Originally Posted by sreenivas
what is the difference between 301 redirection & canonical tag
please explain?
Thanks
A 301 redirect is the permanent redirection of a URL for exemple, redirecting non-www version to a www version of your domain name.
A canonical tag is used when you have multiple versions of URLs for the same web page and you tell the search engine for which URL you would like to be indexed. Using a canonical tag will tell the search engine that no matter what page he lands on, you want to be indexed for the one that is in the canonical tag.
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