New Ways to Address Duplicate Content

Duplicate Content has long been an issue with webmasters and is cause for concern because duplicating content dilutes your ranking in search results. Perhaps the most common cause of having duplicate content is in allowing both www. and non www versions of your site to exist. However, another place where I see duplicate content occur is when a customer has multiple domain names pointing to the same content. When you use multiple domain names, and there are good reasons to do this, you should pic...
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Rel Canonical now supported by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

There is a new Canonical tag that is supported by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. This is important news, especially as people are working more and more with CMS systems and database driven websites (such as Joomla, WordPress, etc). The issue is that people can arrive at your content in a variety of ways. The simplest variation being www. versus non www. version of your site. What's that, you say they are the same?  Au contraire mon fraire, to a search engine www is a separate sub-domain. There...
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