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How Long Before Canonical URL Tags Are Gamed?
If you are reading this then I bet I have nothing I can add to the discussion of support for the new canonical URL tags by Google, Yahoo, and Live that was recently announced. If by chance you have not, here are links for the spin by each engine:
Technical interpretations abound, including:
- SEOmoz
- Search Engine Land
- Yoast (with a Wordpress plugin already)
The SEOmoz and Search Engine Land articles do an excellent job of talking about the canonical URL tag. The immediate thoughts that come to my mind are:
- Will the engines later use these tags for some other purpose, like they did when the switched the intention of nofollow from generally indicating a level of distrust to force feeding the idea of nofollowing paid links.
- Will they shadier SEO’s work on a way to use canonical URL tags to their advantage? On this, I can say with certainty they are already postulating.
Do you think they will succeed?
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