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Clarify Canonical tag In your May newsletter, you mention introducing canonical tags and say "This way, only name.tel is indexed and displayed and not www.name.tel" In my web based sites, I use a 301 redirect inside an htacces file, which makes google see and display only the non www site (try typingwww.dialaroom.info, and it resolves to dialaroom.info without the www displayed. However, when www.dialaroom.tel is entered as the url it still displays as that. Have you introduced the non-www canonical tag and if so is it correct for it to display the www. I've used the tag before for pointing out duplicate content on a few of my other sites, by entering How have you implemented it, and wouldn't a 301 redirect be possible? |
Hi Dialaroom, The canonical tag doesn't work as a redirect, it's an indication for a crawler to consider "www.domain.tel" to be "domain.tel".http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...canonical.html If you look at the source of www.nadya.tel, you'll see . The same is used for webproxy.nic.tel nodes that are used to display private data. |
Thanks Nadya, I see the link now and understand that it is in place in the www version. That's great. The only thing that made me pose the question, was this quote from the May newsletter "This way, only name.tel is indexed and displayed and not www.name.tel" Thanks for answering so quickly, take the rest of the day off.:) |
Hi! By "displayed" I think the newsletter meant "displayed in search results" - but point taken, thank you. |
