It's a bullshit SEO people say to make more money. Almost all resources on the internet are available on more than one page. For example, following urls usually equivalent: http://www.example.org/user/name/ http://example.org/user/NAME https://example.org/user/name?qaaz
But it is perfectly fine for server to serve different content depending on whether trailing slash is present or not for example. And search engine cannot determine whether it's the same resource or not based on url. That's why search engines are capable of detecting similar pages regardless of the url and treat them as equivalent without any "canonical url" garbage attached. Canonical urls are useful in some cases, but it has nothing to do with duplicate content. But there is always someone who calls himself seo consultant who will suggest to add a few useless metadata to your page for money. That's what they do really. I don't mind (that's still a bit better than other kinds of fraud), but those lies they're spreading are starting to annoy me. On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:46:34 PM UTC+4, ryandesign wrote: > > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:02, Alex Kocharin wrote: > > > Almost all resources can be retrieved using different urls, hardly an > issue. > > Search engines may see this as spamming and decrease your ranking. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_content > > Either use only a single URL for each resource, or use canonical link > elements in the duplicate pages. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
