SEO, Duplicate Content, Canonical Tag

March 26th, 2009

So a while back the major search engines announced they are to help webmasters with the age old problem of duplicate content or more specifically the same content under multiple urls.

This has been a constant headache for webmasters that have to show dynamic data that can be categorised under more than one url.  Blogs, News Feeds, Content Management Systems and e-commerce/online shops all suffer from this.

Matt Cutts from Goolge explains in a great little video exactly what the problem is and how they are working with webmasters to fix this.  This news and implementation comes just in time for me to use this on the new website of my company Digital Marmalade.

So far it all seems to be working well and I’m busy tracking stats in Googles webmaster central and other tools.