<link rel="canonical" href="http://bedroompublishing.com/page.html"/>
What does the above piece of code actually mean? It’s a piece of code that you can write into your sites HTML that let’s the search engines know which is the ultimate page you want indexing and therefore appearing in search results pages. This is great because for so long search engines have been deciding what pages should be indexed when there spiders access your site but it now puts webmasters in control about the exact page and URL they want to show. This is especially useful if content for example appears on multiple pages.
To read information from the major search engines you can access posts by them here – Google Yahoo Microsoft
If you using WordPress to host your site like this one then you can download a plug-in that will manage the application on these tags but if you are using a theme like Thesis that has been applied to this blog then it will handle everything for you. As the search landscape now changes at an incredible rate it’s key that if you run a site you stay ahead and implement pretty much anything the search engines release.
Take a look at the presentation given by Matt Cutts at a conference on the topic of canonical URL’s, these at any cost should not be ignored.
