Google Announces Support for Cross Domain Canonicalization
Support for Cross Domain Canonicalization is welcomed by SEO India Company, Profit By Search and all SEO Professionals across the world, This would be of immense benefit to:
- Shared Windows Hosting websites, where there is no support for 301 redirects
- Non technical webmasters
- Webmasters who want to let visitor come to a page which might be better in terms of usability & design but wants google crawler to view the same page…
This is what google mentioned on http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394:
Can rel=”canonical” be used to suggest a canonical url on a completely different domain?
There are situations where it’s not easily possible to set up redirects. This could be the case when you need to migrate to a new domain name using a web server that cannot create server-side redirects. In this case, you can use the rel=”canonical” link element to specify the exact URL of the domain preferred for indexing. While the rel=”canonical” link element is seen as a hint and not an absolute directive, we do try to follow it where possible.
Yahoo & Bing will to follow the same soon, for more details Contact us..