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My Favorite Wordpress Plugins

I don't know how many of these posts I have read, but in the spirit of spamming the internet, here is my list of my all time favorite WordPress plug-ins. When picking a plug-in, I keep in mind that I will not be making the updates, but my clients will be. So I try to pick plug-ins that are easy... Read More...

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Canonical URL (Google, Yahoo, MSN,…)

By Head Lounger • July 24th, 2009 • SEO

Canonical urls are a way of specifying a clean url for a given page. A single page can have several urls directing to that single page.

For example

http://www.yoursite.com

http://yoursite.com

http://www.yoursite.com/

http://www.yoursite.com/index.html


All of these examples will direct a viewer to your homepage.  Canonical urls are a way of finding the best url for a page and ignoring the many variations. The beautiful thing about this new technique, is that you can specify what your single url should be.

Example code on your html page:

<link rel=”canonical” src=”http://www.example.org/your/permalink/page/” />

If you want to read more information on this technique, you can visit the official google blog.

 

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