On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Phil Boswell <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't this what the new "rel=canonical" facility is designed to cover? > > I seem to recall we're using that for REDIRECT pages, why not for this kind > of situation?
Matt Cutts of Google has stressed that rel="canonical" should only be used where redirects aren't feasible: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/canonical-link-element-presentation.html Slide 8: "* Far better to avoid dupes and normalize urls in the first place * If you're a power user, exhaust alternatives first" Besides, duplicate URLs are just kind of icky. It seems nicer on the basis of general web principles to have a single URL where possible, unless there are specific good reasons not to. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
