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Canonical Link Element (Google SEO)
Feedback ID: 815 Status: Closed
Product: News Articles Implemented? Yes
Created On: 3/7/2009 Created By: Déclic Vidéo
Details: Hello,

Following georgelew suggestion (http://www.ventrian.com/Support/ProductForums/tabid/118/forumid/4/postid/35430/view/topic/Default.aspx), it would be interesting to have the "canonical link element" implemented into NA.

Basically the problem with NA (and DNN in general) is that there easily appear duplicate URL:s. For example an NA article can be reached trough these URLs:
http://www.mydomain.com/Texts/tabid/53/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/504/This-is-the-headline-of-the-story.aspx
http://www.mydomain.com/tabid/53/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/504/This-is-the-headline-of-the-story.aspx
http://www.mydomain.com/Texts/tabid/53/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/504/Default.aspx
http://www.mydomain.com/tabid/53/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/504/Default.aspx

There could be even more variations of the URL since the the part /This-is-the-headline-of-the-story.aspx could be substituted for anything...

But the above four variations should not appear in google but be directed to one. This would not hurt PR.

More info:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394&topic=15262
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2188/Canonical-Url-and-DotNetNuke.aspx

DV FX
PS: Thanks to georgelew and Sölve Dahlgren

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Comments
By georgelew @ 3/8/2009
:) It would be cool to have this feature in NA.

By georgelew @ 7/3/2009
Yeah! This feature finally released in latest NA.

By Scott McCulloch @ 7/6/2009
Yep, closing this item.