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Thanks! Is there a way to do similar w/ Bing?

I implemented rel=canonical on our pages which helped a lot, but my latest Moz crawl is still showing lots of duplicate page titles (2,000+).

There are other ways to get to this page (depending on what feature you clicked, it will have a different URL) but will have the same page title.

Does having rel=canonical in place fix the duplicate page title problem, or do I need to change something else? I was under the impression that the canonical tag would address this by telling the crawler which URL was the URL and the crawler would only use that one for the page title.

Thanks, Ryan. I was confusing those.

To execute the sitemap index, would I just point the crawlers to the index? Do you have any links to overviews of how to set that up?

Oh, PERFECT. That is exactly what I was looking for. Lays everything out in a super easy to read format. Thank you very much.

Great, thanks!

Should we also have it live at /sitemap, as SEOmoz does?

I realized we don't have a sitemap in place, so we're going to get one built. Once we do, I'll submit it manually to Google via Webmaster tools.

However, we have a very dynamic site with content constantly being added. Will I need to keep manually re-submitting the sitemap to Google? Or could we have the continually updating sitemap live on our site at /sitemap and the crawlers will just pick it up from there? I noticed this is what SEOmoz does at http://www.seomoz.org/sitemap.

After we implement canonicals URLs, or make some other significant change to our site that is going to impact our SEO, is there a way to force Google or other search engines to re-index us faster? Would manually re-submitting a sitemap do this?

Our site is very graphics heavy and I know the search engines aren't seeing it as humans do. Is there a tool (almost like Wirify) that can show me exactly how Google sees my page(s)?

Thanks in advance.

That makes sense. So is that hurting/helping our SEO? We have a 301 redirect in place on the www. so I imagine it shouldn't be big deal.

Thanks, Peter. I didn't think to check the index. They aren't currently being indexed, but I'm going to take your advice and add them in anyway.

New to SEOmoz, loving it so far.

I promote content on my site a lot and am diligent about using UTM tags to track conversions & attribute data properly.

I was reading earlier about the use of link rel=canonical in the case of duplicate page content and can't find a conclusive answer whether or not I need to add the canonical tag to these pages.

Do I need the canonical tag in this case? If so, can the canonical tag live in the HEAD section of the original / base page itself as well as any other URLs that call that content (that have UTM tags, etc)?

Thank you.