Canonical tag usage.
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I have added canonical tags to all my pages, yet I just don't know if I have used them correctly - do you have any ideas on this. My url is http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk
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ha ha .. Yes people at Google do make mistake.. Check here at -
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
And the interesting thing is that here in this post I informed them to make the changes and they made it .. lolz
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Per and Deb - thank you so much for taking the time to give me some advice and reassurance on this question. With regards to the "missing gap", I took the code for the tag direct from Matt Cutts page on this, and did think at the time, "why is he missing a space?".
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/
In this article his canonical code is written:
Any ideas why he didn't use the gap, a typo maybe?
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Good spotted on the syntax, I actually never looked at that (blush)
But as he has the www version within his cannonical on the none www version, there is no need to redirect the none www pages as you state, as the cannonical is just that.
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Just one small problem. Home page canonical is set as this - http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/index.html . There is nothing wrong in this, but from user’s perspective it should be this - http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/ .
And there is a gap missing here –
_ The correct code should be this –_
_Just minor changes, otherwise it is perfectly fine.
Another friendly advice. Please redirect all non www version of pages to its www counter parts. For say, this URL - http://waspkilluk.co.uk/ should be directed to http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/ . _
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It looks to me like you have done it perfectly
I did a test without www.* and cannonical pointed to the www version, just as it should.
Haven't checked all your pages, but the 20 random I checked was all OK
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