Canonical Link Element: presentation from SMX West

A little while ago, Google and other search engines announced support for a canonical link element that can help site owners with duplicate content issues. I recreated my presentation from SMX West and you can watch it below:



You can access the slides directly or follow along here:

By the way, Ask just announced that they will support the canonical link element. Read all about it in the Ask.com blog entry.

Thanks again to Wysz for turning this into a great video.

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Posted by Matt Cutts, Search Quality Team