First - why to solve canonical URLs (or canonicalization) issue? The most important is to ease crawling of your site by robots and getting your pages into index of search engines. Let's assume you may type: mysite.com www.mysite.com mysite.com/ mysite.com/index.php www.mysite.com/index.php In essence after calling any of those URLs you see them showing same content on the same page. But that's you... just imagine that for search engines they ALL are DIFFERENT URLs. First, search … [Read more...]
How to use a 301 Redirect and how to get rid of canonical URLs
April 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
One day you face a need to point your old web-site to a new URL saving your precious and hard earned Page Rank. Or your http://example.com is different from http://www.example.com, so you need to solve canonicalization issue (what a word - can breake my brain:). The easiest way to solve alike problems is using 301 redirect. The article below, which you may find original text here: How to Redirect a Web Page Using a 301 Redirect, is well written tutorial on this subject proposing solution … [Read more...]
