I’ve been taking some SEO advice on how to make some improvements to my site. One of the suggestions is as follows, and I quote:
“I’ve noticed that some of your most powerful backlinks point to the non-canonical version of your homepage. If you implemented the rel=“canonical” tag across your site, you might gain more value from links that point to these non preferred URLS. You should also update all internal links to point to the homepage (”/“) rather than the “/index.html” version.”
Google’s webmaster central blog talks about the canonical tag here:
Does anyone have any neat and quick ways to add this tag using Freeway? And how can I update all my internal links to point to “/” rather than “/index.html”? Is this possible in Freeway?
You can add it to your pages by going to the page menu and choosing HTML Markup. A dialog with a dropdown menu at the bottom of it will open up, select “After ” from the dropdown and paste the link tag like so:
You will want to change http://www.examle.com for your domain, and add the path to page if you’re adding it to a page other than your homepage.
Hope this helps,
Joe
On 31 Mar 2010, at 17:23, eidetic wrote:
Hi,
I’ve been taking some SEO advice on how to make some improvements to my site. One of the suggestions is as follows, and I quote:
“I’ve noticed that some of your most powerful backlinks point to the non-canonical version of your homepage. If you implemented the rel=“canonical” tag across your site, you might gain more value from links that point to these non preferred URLS. You should also update all internal links to point to the homepage (”/“) rather than the “/index.html” version.”
Google’s webmaster central blog talks about the canonical tag here:
Does anyone have any neat and quick ways to add this tag using Freeway? And how can I update all my internal links to point to “/” rather than “/index.html”? Is this possible in Freeway?
And to get links to the home page to be to the folder name rather than
the index.html, you can use the External side of the Edit Hyperlink
dialog, and enter a single slash in the URL field. I’m not sure why
Google is recommending this behavior – a link to a folder gets a
redirect by Apache to folder + default index page (usually
index.html). This is more work for the server, and strictly speaking,
not a true URL at all.
Walter
On Mar 31, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Joe Billings wrote:
Hi eidetic,
You can add it to your pages by going to the page menu and choosing
HTML Markup. A dialog with a dropdown menu at the bottom of it will
open up, select “After ” from the dropdown and paste the link
tag like so:
You will want to change http://www.examle.com for your domain, and
add the path to page if you’re adding it to a page other than your
homepage.
Hope this helps,
Joe
On 31 Mar 2010, at 17:23, eidetic wrote:
Hi,
I’ve been taking some SEO advice on how to make some improvements
to my site. One of the suggestions is as follows, and I quote:
“I’ve noticed that some of your most powerful backlinks point to
the non-canonical version of your homepage. If you implemented the
rel=“canonical” tag across your site, you might gain more value
from links that point to these non preferred URLS. You should also
update all internal links to point to the homepage (”/“) rather
than the “/index.html” version.”
Google’s webmaster central blog talks about the canonical tag here:
Does anyone have any neat and quick ways to add this tag using
Freeway? And how can I update all my internal links to point to “/”
rather than “/index.html”? Is this possible in Freeway?