[BNM] Passing pagerank through a redirect

[Stuart Dunkeld]

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft do - http://searchengineland.com/canonical-tag-16537

--stuart

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cheers for that.
> How widely supported is the canonical tag?
>
> Do all (decent) search engines support it?
>
> Al
>
> 2009/5/5 Tim Aldiss <timaldiss at gmail.com>
>
>> Did you resolve this Alastair?
>> This sort of stuff can work, a 300 HTTP code is wrong though, should be a
>> 301.
>>
>> The other option is to use the new canonical tag, e.g. link directly to URL
>> B from the site he wants to track from
>>
>> a)      www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html
>> b)      www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html?visitor=1
>>
>> Have this canonical tag on both URL a) and b):
>>
>> <link rel="canonical" href="
>> http://www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html" />
>>
>> I’m not sure why analytics would not be accurate enough though? Should be
>> just as accurate if it’s set up correctly
>>
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>> 2009/4/29 Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com>
>>
>> > Hi there...
>> >
>> > I want to set up a link that passes pagerank (from an external site)
>> > to a page on ours. However, I also want to be able to track the click
>> > (exactly, analytics not accurate enough)...
>> >
>> > So if the link needs to pass page rank to this page:
>> >
>> > www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html
>> >
>> > And I set up a redirect script:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> www.domain.com/redirect.php?url=www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html
>> >
>> > That redirects using a 300 HTTP code, will that be ok?
>> >
>> > * Any pitfalls I should avoid?
>> > * Is this as good as a direct link for passing pagerank?
>> > * Does google frown upon this?
>> >
>> > Many thanks!
>> >
>> > Al
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