this site states pretty clearly on how to use canonical http://www.johnfdoherty.com/do-bing-and-google-treat-relcanonical-differently/
" When should I definitely NOT use the canonical tag? A few times exist when you should not use the canonical tag, and instead use a different tactic: On paginated results (use rel=prev or rel=next instead When the page is no longer necessary. Use a 301 redirect to a relevant page instead. " Currently we use "canonical"=>url without any named params. But this seems to be the quick and dirty hack. The problem is that "page" is mixed in with "sort" etc For "sort" we should use canonical. There can be quite a few combinations of the above params... How do you handle this? Extract the page and display the canonical link in combination with this single param if available? I think it is pretty important to get this right because otherwise everything after page 1 does not get indexed. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
