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SEO Tip #115: Is There An Advantage to Using REL Canonical Over 301 Redirect?

Posted by ajohnson in: Search Engine Tips
SEO Tip #115: Is There An Advantage to Using REL Canonical Over 301 Redirect?

Matt Cutts: I’m going to take your question and answer the question that I want to answer, which is some people seem to think, “Oh how much PageRank do I lose or how much link juice do I lose if I do a 301 redirect.” You lose just a tiny little bit, not very much at all but if you didn’t lose any then there would be some temptation for
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SEO Tip #113: Does Google Support Cross-Domain Rel Canonical?

Posted by ajohnson in: Search Engine Tips
SEO Tip #113: Does Google Support Cross-Domain Rel Canonical?

Matt Cutts: Great question. Whenever rel canonical was first introduced we wanted to be a little careful. We didn’t want to open it up for potential abuse so you could only use rel canonical within one domain. The only exception to that was you could do between IP addresses and domains. But over time we didn’t see people abusing it a lot and if you think about it, if some evil
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