Subdomain canonicalisation
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Hi Moz fans,
I had a telephone conversation with an SEO company last week and they mentioned that the following "versions" of my domain were causing a canonicalisation issue;
I've already fixed the /index.html issue but do the above 3 also need to be fixed? Is the best solution to use a 301 redirect?
As a side note, the SEOmoz web app doesn't identify these as being duplicate content...
Regards, Ash
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Hey Ash,
If you use a canonical in the index.html, then when you load example.com or example.com/ or etc. etc. versions you basically load the index.html (in which there is configured the canonical link).
My developer usually makes a 301 redirect from non-www. to www. and we implement to canonical link into index.html and that is it
I hope it helped,
Istvan
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