Hi this is another question about how to fix a canonicalization issue with regard to pages with duplicate content
This can / will occur if you have a Detailed pages enabled and links that are in more than 1 category
Example here for link ID123
http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/2nd_category/3rd_category/page_123.html
http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/2nd_category/page_123.html
http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/page_123.html
Google have a page about this on their webmaster support section, about the issue of web pages that may be referenced by multiple / different urls
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139066
One solution they suggest is to "add a <link> element with the attribute rel="canonical" to the <head> section of the non-canonical pages" telling the search engine which is the MASTER copy of the page
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/2nd_category/3rd_category/page_123.html">
Is there any way to get this canonical <link> code into the 'duplicate' pages?
Any other suggestion to avoid having duplicate pages when trying to list a link listing in more than 1 category?
Thanks
Colin Thompson
This can / will occur if you have a Detailed pages enabled and links that are in more than 1 category
Example here for link ID123
http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/2nd_category/3rd_category/page_123.html
http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/2nd_category/page_123.html
http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/page_123.html
Google have a page about this on their webmaster support section, about the issue of web pages that may be referenced by multiple / different urls
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139066
One solution they suggest is to "add a <link> element with the attribute rel="canonical" to the <head> section of the non-canonical pages" telling the search engine which is the MASTER copy of the page
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.******.com/Detailed/1st_category/2nd_category/3rd_category/page_123.html">
Is there any way to get this canonical <link> code into the 'duplicate' pages?
Any other suggestion to avoid having duplicate pages when trying to list a link listing in more than 1 category?
Thanks
Colin Thompson