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Optional www expands Canonical confusion with MS Office Small Business Live & Google Pagemaker

Writing about web page http://tsfcoventry.co.uk

http://www.wmccm.co.uk
http://www.wmccm.co.uk/WMCCM/
http://www.wmccm.co.uk/WMCCM/DesktopDefault.aspx
http://www.wmccm.co.uk/WMCCM/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

The http:// has always been optional and so has the www so the 4 aliases’ above becomes 16 or 32 if you have https secure variations too.

Two of the main free and inexpensive website hosting options Microsoft Office Live Basics and Google Page Creator both create websites without the www at the start but these still work if www is added. These links also have many aliases’.

TSF Coventry’s site is provided by MS and the main version does not use the www. so all links to the site should look like http://tsfcoventry.co.uk/structural.aspx for their structural steels page. Good practice should use the same URL convention for the internal links as those used for the inbound links.

Robert McGonigle : 04 Feb 2008 11:58 |  Tags: Canonical Canonicalization Ms Office Live Pagemaker |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Problems with duplicate content or canonicalization.

Writing about web page http://www.tsfcoventry.co.uk

I am helping a very local company over at Brunsall Road, Canley, Coventry. TSF (Coventry) Ltd, trading as Howard Thorne Steel & Fabrications produce structural steels, fabrications and material handling equipment. The TSF (Coventry) website needed only minor changes but Google had found their prototype website on their developers domain. The Blog of Google’s Matt Cutts gave a good explanation of the problems the search engines have with pages with more than one alias or canonicalization.

TSF were introduced to WMCCM by Dirk Schaefer of Techmark over at the Science Park as a part of a growing partnership.

Robert McGonigle : 01 Nov 2007 16:43 |  Tags: Canonicalization |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem