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February 13th, 2009, 8:44 am

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Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. ... nical.html

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February 13th, 2009, 8:44 am

thomas_09
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February 15th, 2009, 2:28 am

Hey,

It sounds great.

so that means we don't need to rewrite link of any webpage, isn't it?

joebert
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February 15th, 2009, 4:39 am

One bonus, is that this makes getting around duplicate-content penalties with Google a straight forward process no matter whether an Apache, IIS, or some other type of HTTP server is in use.

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so that means we don't need to rewrite link of any webpage, isn't it?

Not in such a general sense.

Some types of rewrites will still be useful. Ones done for the sole purpose of getting around duplicate content penalties can most likely be stopped though. At least for Google.

Does this seem like something other search engines would pick up on ?
What would happen as far as other search engines are concerned if someone were to implement this, and drop their existing rewrite-based solution ?

Strong with this one, the sudo is.

atlantadentalcenter
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February 16th, 2009, 10:13 pm

This is great I'm glad that added that and it's going to be widely accepted across Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Although I will still be using rewrite for so pages as I agree with joebert there are some other useful things that can be done with it.

thomas_09
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February 18th, 2009, 9:57 am

atlantadentalcenter wrote:

This is great I'm glad that added that and it's going to be widely accepted across Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Hey,

yep, I also read about it on some other sites and all major three search engine have come together and will follow this new attribute.

Singh001
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February 20th, 2009, 9:33 pm

Hi,
Thanks for this useful information. I'm a new one in this forum. I must appreciate the tools provided by you. Please keep updating me in this regard.

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