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Thread: How to implement link rel canonical

  1. 03-04-2011, 06:37 AM #1
    doru is offline Senior Member
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    Default How to implement link rel canonical

    Hi,

    I am using ASPDSNF v9 and I'm using 2 skins.

    I have an issue where Google is indexing a page multiple times, due to the skinid parameter. For example, Google may consider both http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx?skinid=1 AND http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx to be separate pages, when they’re actually the same page. This means that we’re being penalized by Google for having multiple duplicate pages.

    For each page, we need to tell Google to index only the true, canonical version of the URL – we can do this by inserting the “rel=canonical” tag in the <head> section of each page:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/current-page.aspx" />

    So if Google goes to http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx?skinid=1, the rel=canonical tag would be:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx" />

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thank you,
    Doru
  2. 06-23-2011, 10:50 AM #2
    danrawk is offline Member
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    did you ever find a solution for this? we're in the same boat. the url parameters after the product file name are causing all kinds of problems with duplicate content in our category pages with google and SEO in general.

    kind of surprised this has not been worked in yet.

    Quote Originally Posted by doru View Post
    Hi,

    I am using ASPDSNF v9 and I'm using 2 skins.

    I have an issue where Google is indexing a page multiple times, due to the skinid parameter. For example, Google may consider both http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx?skinid=1 AND http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx to be separate pages, when they’re actually the same page. This means that we’re being penalized by Google for having multiple duplicate pages.

    For each page, we need to tell Google to index only the true, canonical version of the URL – we can do this by inserting the “rel=canonical” tag in the <head> section of each page:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/current-page.aspx" />

    So if Google goes to http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx?skinid=1, the rel=canonical tag would be:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mydomain.com/t-contact.aspx" />

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thank you,
    Doru
    Last edited by danrawk; 06-23-2011 at 10:58 AM.
  3. 06-23-2011, 11:28 AM #3
    danrawk is offline Member
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    refer to this thread:

    http://forums.aspdotnetstorefront.co...licate-content

    requires a little work to get it up to MS 9.1, but should get you on your way.

    hopefully ASPDNSF will add this natively to future versions - i only see downsides to google/search engines caching string parameters in the URL