Search engine giants Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all announced on their respective official search engine blogs that they would begin utilizing a new so-called canonical tag that will help their search engines cut through the clutter of the Web. More specifically, the announcements are a signal to webmasters to start using the specialized tag to help the big search engines do a better job of indexing Web sites that have duplicate URLs that all point to the same content.
We're going through the painful process of modifying all of our pages to support this new tag. To make it a bit easier, we've written a Firefox extension to help. If you think it might be useful to you, it can be downloaded here:
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Big Search Sites Push Canonical Tag to Sweep Up Link Clutter
Posted by: Chris Maxcer February 13, 2009 11:50 AMSearch engine giants Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all announced on their respective official search engine blogs that they would begin utilizing a new so-called canonical tag that will help their search engines cut through the clutter of the Web. More specifically, the announcements are a signal to webmasters to start using the specialized tag to help the big search engines do a better job of indexing Web sites that have duplicate URLs that all point to the same content.
http://www.wahanda.com/inspire/canonical-uri-extension-for-firefox