Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft all announce a new tag that will get rid of your duplicate content problems.

In the past, SEO’s have had to worry things such as session ID’s, tracking ID’s, source strings, link parameters, and other variables in URL’s. Not anymore. Now, you will have more control over the URL returned in search results. The new tag goes in the “head” section of your web pages.

You can find an example of the new tag on the Webmaster Central blog. The article also contains a short Q and A at the bottom that might help answer some of your lingering questions.

Google says they will “take your preference into account, in conjunction with other signals, when calculating the most relevant page to display in search results.”

WebProNews did an interview with Matt Cutts about the new canonical tag. Matt says watching the video is the easiest way to learn about the new tag quickly.


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Also, you can check out Matt’s blog, where he further explains the canonical link tag here.