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Rich Baxter lays the smackdown on non-best practices in URL canonicalization by Matt Cutts. Yes, I did just use ’lay the smackdown’ and ’url canonicalization’ in a single sentence.
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from ViperChill 1408 Days ago #
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Sphunn just because of your description :P

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from richardbaxterseo 1408 Days ago #
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Yeah; that description was pretty sweet. Good work Gab!

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from richardbaxterseo 1408 Days ago #
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Heh! He’s fixed it - without a comment (of course) on how impactful this issue really is to your Google SERPS, merely a "guinea pig" response! Note to self. Try harder next time! Get algo questions answered by Googlers!

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from Eavesy 1406 Days ago #
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Sphunn for mentioning smackdown’ and ’url canonicalization’ in a single sentence.

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from Halfdeck 1406 Days ago #
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"Sphunn for mentioning smackdown’ and ’url canonicalization’ in a single sentence."That’s a fine reason to Sphinn.

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from Red5 1405 Days ago #
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I’m still seeing the issue in SERPs, and I see no evidence of changes when navigating to either link. ;-)

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from g1smd 1404 Days ago #
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Matt has done a lot of experimentation with his domain regarding which URLs do and do not get indexed.

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from Halfdeck 1047 Days ago #
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Nice catch but I’m desphinning this because the story isn’t all that interesting to me, what’s more interesting is some well-known SEO blogs have no www to non-www redirect set up.

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