[BNM] Passing pagerank through a redirect

[Tim Aldiss]

Yeah it's a new open standard... Matt Cutts has more about it here:
http://www.dullest.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/
Cheers

Tim

2009/5/6 Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com>

> 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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