A rel="canonical" to www.homepage.com/home.aspx Hurts my Rank?
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Hello,
The CMS that I use makes 3 versions of the homepage:
www.homepage.com/home.aspxBy default the CMS is set to rel=canonical all versions to the www.homepage.com/home.aspx version.
If someone were to link to a website they most likely aren't going to link to www.homepage.com/home.aspx, they'll link to www.homepage.com which makes that link juice flow through the canonical to www.homepage.com/home.aspx right? Why make that extra loop at all? Wouldn't that be splitting the juice? I know 301's loose 1-5 % juice, but not sure about canonical. I assume it works the same way?
Thanks!
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Thanks!
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I would recommend you to make contact with your web agency and see if they can fix this for you. The best solution is to get one single unique URL for the index page.
Quite often, the web agencies can fix it, I´ve worked with a lot of customers having the same issue.
Good luck!
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A canonical tells google that all 3 are the same page, I'm not honestly sure if there is a loss, but if there is no re-direct involved it should in theory not be a problem.
What I /would/ recomend however is setting up some 301's and cannonicals to the homepage.com address if you can. If it /is/ a problem or ever becomes one, this will ensure that your getting the most use out of the link.
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