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StarkReality · 02-14-2009, 04:11 PM

While the new canonical tag that will work for google, yahoo and msn certainly has some neat advantages to avoid duplicate content for bloggers and many script based sites, it's has an ugly side, too.

I'd bet most sponsors will put it up quickly, meaning even search engine friendly sponsor URLs with affiliate IDs will disappear from the SERPs and all those links will only count towards the power of the defined canonical URL, one without any affiliate ID. Noindex on crack.

Damn, I loved those lucky shots, but it seems like the party is over soon.

02-14-2009, 04:11 PM
StarkReality Confirmed User Join Date: May 2004 Location: 4 8 15 16 23 42 Posts: 4,444	The canonical tag - Goodbye ranking affiliate links While the new canonical tag that will work for google, yahoo and msn certainly has some neat advantages to avoid duplicate content for bloggers and many script based sites, it's has an ugly side, too. I'd bet most sponsors will put it up quickly, meaning even search engine friendly sponsor URLs with affiliate IDs will disappear from the SERPs and all those links will only count towards the power of the defined canonical URL, one without any affiliate ID. Noindex on crack. Damn, I loved those lucky shots, but it seems like the party is over soon.