Comments on: 7 Reasons Every e-Commerce Manager Should use the Rel Canonical Tag

By: Bookmarking Tool

Bookmarking Tool — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:13:28 +0000

Sweet post! Probably one of the best on the canonical that I have seen.

In my post:
http://brent.rangen.net/?p=304

I talk about using the Canonical and how Bing does not support it. Wouldn’t you say to stick with a 301-redirect and the “noindex” until there total Search Engine support?

Also, when you are dealing with a huge ecommerce site on different country code domains, what would you personally do for the products as they are identical over four-five sites. The canonical attribute seems like the ideal choice, but if Bing doesn’t recognize it, will your site be less visible through Bing?

Love to hear your two cents.

By: Dave Beck

Dave Beck — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:47:30 +0000

That would be great thanks Kelvin, here is the link – http://www.shoppingcartstrategies.com/interspire/seo-index-module/

It’s a free download for anybody who needs it.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:41:58 +0000

What’s the details of the plugin Dave? I’ll add it to the body of the post?

By: Dave Beck

Dave Beck — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:12:31 +0000

hi Kelvin

Great article.

I would also like to reinforce your information by saying that I have seen some great results from implementing the canonical URL element.

After working on a number of Interspire shopping cart installations I was prompted to write a canonical url plug-in that has really helped clean up the search results on the sites using it.

regards Dave

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 8, 2010

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 8, 2010 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:05:16 +0000

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