After I 301 redirect duplicate pages to my rel=canonical page, do I need to add any tags or code to the non canonical pages?
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I have many duplicate pages. Some pages have 2-3 duplicates. Most of which have Uppercase and Lowercase paths (generated by Microsoft IIS). Does this implementation of 301 and rel=canonical suffice? Or is there more I could do to optimize the passing of duplicate page link juice to the canonical.
THANK YOU!
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If I am understanding you correctly, you shouldn't need to rel=canonical anything in this case if you are 301 redirecting everything.
Typically you will use the rel=canonical if you are unable to implement a 301 or if a page can be accessed multiple ways, but has a unique URL.
Implementing the 301 will direct the link juice from the duplicate pages to the "original" page.
Also, just a note if you don't know already, IIS actually has a setting that enforces lowercase URLs and will automatically generate a redirect rule to implement them.
Hope this helps.
Mike
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