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February 16, 2009

Matt Cutts on Canonical Tags

Learn from Matt Cutts how to use the new "canonical tags" supported by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, to let you better control how search engines will find your pages.

by John Gaudio

Matt Cutts is arguably the most knowledgeable SEO, (Search Engine Optimization) guru on the planet, and in this short video he describes the remarkable fact that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have come together on a standard "canonical tag" through which you can better control how search engines rate pages on your site, and how they determine if your content is "duplicated content" from and SEO point of view.

I've also included a Google search leading to numerous other articles on the topic.

As always, your comments are welcome.

John


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