Cross-Domain Canonical The New 301? – Whiteboard Friday

About a year ago Google announced the release of the canonical tag to the SEO world.  The canonical tag helps in solving issues with duplicate content by letting Google know that pages with the tag are copies of the original page.  Now we can do this across different domains to let Google know where the original content originated from and give credit to the original content owner.

 

This week Rand discusses some information from Tony Adam‘s blog post titled, Should I use the Canonical Tag or 301 Redirect to change domains, and some research that we have done internally here at SEOmoz. Rand touches on our use of the cross-domain canonical tag on The Story of SEOmoz blog post and some of the effect we saw.  Please feel free to add your comments on what you’ve seen by using the cross-domain canonical tag.