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Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft got together recently and agreed on something. It’s a small thing, but it has a lot of impact nonetheless.
What did they decide upon? Well, it’s actually a small little bit of semantic reasoning that web masters can now add to their pages to provide better search engine results.
It’s a simple link tag with the “rel” set to “canonical” like this:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com"/>
What it does is stop duplicate content on the web. A rather small, but notable step towards adding semantics to web pages.
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