Before you continue further, it is necessary that you know how they work, so if you are not yet familiar with them, see the video from matt cutts. Watching the video is the easiest way to learn about this new element quickly. A canonical tag is an effective way to prevent duplicate content issues by letting search engines know which version of a page is the preferred or canonical version. Matt cutts is answering your seo questions submit suite. Im trying to find a good general purpose way to canonicalize urls in an asp. If you have published on your blog an awesome, useful post on seo on wordpress, and you allow 34 niche blogs to syndicate that content on their blogs, you can take advantage of a canonical tag to tell search engine bots that the article published on your blog is the original and should rank as the original. And, as any webmaster or search marketing professional knows, when matt cutts speaks, we listen. Using an authorization filter because it is executed ea. If you enjoyed that video but wanted to learn more, last week i sat down and rec. Googles matt cutts has himself stated that duplicate content happens all over the net. Even if you break through the clutter and find something truly useful, the current information can be hard to separate. We live in a super dynamic industry with new media platforms and features pop up every day leaving us trying to keep up with the news while doing some work and aiming to achieve better results.
The canonical inspector plugin is a big time saver for checking whether a webpage has a. The canonical version of a url would be a standard single version, when there may be more than one way to represent the url or address of a page. Seven free seo tools you should be using free is awesome. This means that search engines can then potentially ind. Please read our disclosure for more info march 16, 2010 by karon thackston 6 comments.
Mar 29, 2019 matt cutts still leaves seo spam traps. Thanks again to wysz for turning this into a great video. With mobile traffic gaining more market share over the past few years, its more important than ever for websites to have a mobile version of. Googles matt cutts has himself stated that duplicate content happens all over the net all the time, from blog posts to web pages and social media. Feb 02, 20 many argue that wordpress, without any bells and whistles, is the ultimate seo tool. Before you continue further, it is necessary that you know how they work, so if you are not yet familiar with them, see the video from matt cutts about 20 minutes. Cutts stated, 2530% of the web is duplicate content. The search engines have also posted about this new open standard. We live in a super dynamic industry with new media platforms and features pop up every day leaving us trying to keep up with the news. Theres nothing really new here, but its good to get all this info into one place and to see it confirmed by matt. Matt cutts at wordcamp san francisco09 authorstream.
Web crawlers can download only a finite number of documents or web pages in a given amount of time. Seven free seo tools you should be using kissmetrics. Because the search engine knows which version of the page is original canonical, and provide much importance in a search engine rather than another duplicate content. Whenever we talk about wordpress seo, duplicate content is one thing which every seo professional will suggest you focus on and ensure you dont become a victim of the same. Version 4 is the fastest and most efficient release to date. Matt cuttss recent visit to paris has created an important event in the world of seo addicts. Content syndication is the process of pushing your blog, site or video content out. Is there something youve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just. He has been interviewed a lot, and as each time when he appears in public, people have been hanging on his words.
But also featuring neil patel, rand fishkin, danny sullivan, barry schwartz and. Duplicate content and near duplicate content canonical urls. Many argue that wordpress, without any bells and whistles, is the ultimate seo tool. In fact, at smx seattle last week, matt cutts said that hes actually had webmasters sending in screenshots of their pleasetakedownmylinks emails to link publishers. Learn about the canonical link element in 5 minutes matt cutts. Basically, setting a canonical is similar to doing a 301 redirect see matt cutts tell which one is better 301 or canonical, but without actually redirecting. Duplicate content and near duplicate content canonical. Matt cutts, said today that it passes link juice akin to a. Matt cutts explains how to deal with minor duplicate content. A week or so ago i did a post about the canonical link tag, including a pointer to a 34 minute video about the tag. You might want matts blog matt cutts is administrator at u. Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on itunes to be notified of these updates and download the.
Well, matt cutts answers the question are paid directories held to the same standards as paid links. Lee, wasted time on downloading pages is not the critical problem for search. Rel canonical url code tool one click canonical tag generator. Nov 29, 2012 relcanonical is a tool for when you are unable to implement alternatives. How to use relcanonical for content syndication and seo. They are right, but the duplicate content issue in wordpress arises because of many reasons today, we will look into some of the basic reasons and. Enjoy this creative comic book about the seo industry. Jun 05, 2019 whenever we talk about wordpress seo, duplicate content is one thing which every seo professional will suggest you focus on and ensure you dont become a victim of the same. Is there an seo disadvantage to using responsive design instead of separate mobile urls. A canonical issue arises when 301 redirects are not properly in place. Some people want to download the whole playlist when passing a url from one of the videos because otherwise its hard to get an url that contains just the playlist. New insights on duplicate content from matt cutts marketing. From url parameters to canonical tags and session ids, there are many. Matt cutts has given a very useful interview with eric enge, which rounds up a lot of information architecture and technical architecture issues.
To be clear, i think matt cutts is a great guy, but he has a hard job which forces him to be hypocritical and act naive from time to time. Visit the screaming frog official site and download a copy thats compatible. Eine ausfuhrliche beschreibung des begriffs canonical tag praxisnah im online. Were not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about. Diagnosis and correction with free tools on 11072006. Relcanonical is a tool for when you are unable to implement alternatives. Googles matt cutts on publishers with duplicate content. Learn about the canonical link element in 5 minutes. Googles head of search spam matt cutts from discussing it further in a new webmaster help video in response to the usersubmitted question does a site leveraging responsive design lose any seo benefit compared to a more traditional m. The old post features a video of matt cutts being interviewed on the day of the announcement. The reciprocal url often looks like a resource page.
A canonical link element is an html element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content. I think you are definitely on to something that this is a reaction from bing to deal with abusespam of the canonical tag. Your reciprocal url is the web page which should contain useful links with whom youre going to exchange links. Matt initially joined usds in 2016 at department of defense.
Usds helps improve government services that millions of people need and use. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals. Thats why we have the noplaylist option, which you can use and even stick in the configuration file. Matt cutts explains what it means if your site has a manual action labeled as pure spam and what you can do to fix it. By the way, ask just announced that they will support the canonical link element.
Wie du mit dupliziertem inhalt umgehen musst neil patel. Rel canonical on affiliate and partner links youmoz moz. Apr 08, 2016 some people want to download the whole playlist when passing a url from one of the videos because otherwise its hard to get an url that contains just the playlist. Matt cutts interviewed on site architecture silverdisc. Lets look at an example of the use of a canonical tag in content syndication. Thankfully, there are a ton of free tools in the seo world. The canonical link element has been around for nearly 3 years. Make sure to subscribe to our video feed or subscribe directly on itunes to be notified of these updates and download the video in. Especially when that free whatever is giving you extra traffic, money, rank, reputation, riches, etc. Im asking because of this video by matt cutts seams to say otherwise. Here you can find latest digital marketing news about seo, social media, ppc, content marketing, facebook marketing and many more.
Dear matt, i am reading your blog and recently joined youtube channel as well. Microsoft creating rules for canonical urls seo by the sea. For those who have no idea who matt cutts is, i will just mention that he is in. My internet scout choose to use wordpress as the cms of choice before matt cutts endorsement at wordcamp san. I couldnt find much certain answers regarding my html coding questions so i am hoping that you maybe will have a chance to answer it in blog or video. Matt cutts explains how to deal with minor duplicate content issues. Since the panda update, sites scrambling to cope with thin content started abusing the canonical tag and using it on similar pages but not duplicate content pages. Matt recently gave an extremely useful presentation on seo for wordpress at wordcamp 2009 in san francisco. Is there an advantage to using relcanonical over a 301.
I also did a threeminute video with webpronews after the announcement to describe the tag, and you can watch the canonical link element video for another way to learn about it. But also featuring neil patel, rand fishkin, danny sullivan, barry schwartz and john mueller. Scrutiny uses integritys tried and tested engine to crawl a site and report brok. Google and seo, relcanonical blog star translation.
Im not sure if thats a solid number or if it will work for any situation. Its rare that we cover search engine announcements or news items here on seomoz, as this blog is devoted more. Digital service usds, a nonpartisan technology group in the executive office of the president of the us federal government. Use the canonical tool to check if a page has a canonical tag and to find out which page should be index by search engines based on the canonical location. He does advise caution and says to test it before unleashing your canonical tag strategy full force. Canonical url tag the most important advancement in seo. I had a lingering question about using rel canonical vs. His 50 minute presentation provided some great tips and advice on how to optimize a wordpress site. We didnt go that far with our web sites yet so i cannot validate how useful these canonical links really are but they seem like a decent feature.
Jan 09, 2014 matt cutts explains how to deal with minor duplicate content issues. When people say wordpress is seo optimized, they are not lying. Jun 18, 2015 enjoy this creative comic book about the seo industry. Canonical link elements in kentico cms kentico devnet. This means that your website can be accessed by search engines from several different urls. Mar 22, 2017 because the search engine knows which version of the page is original canonical, and provide much importance in a search engine rather than another duplicate content. But as youll see above, matt did chime in today oct 7, 2011 to clarify that selfreferential canonical tags are okay, so i think what he shared in the video still holds as well. There are a lot of great posts and resources about the rel canonical tag, but they can be hard to identify with a simple search. A week or so ago i did a post about the canonical link tag, including a pointer to a 34 minute video about the tag if you enjoyed that video but wanted to learn more, last week i sat down and recreated the presentation that i did at smx west. How to deal with duplicate content issues including those. Home blog seo seven free seo tools you should be using free is awesome.
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