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Hi Dan,

Thanks for your reply.

I am still not completely clear as to what to request.  There is a language barrier with our developer so I generally try to be as unambiguous as possible.

Any ideas on how the developer can determine 'if one works better than the other'?

regards

Brian

Hi guys,

We are in the process of optimizing the pages of our new site.

We have used the 'on page' report card feature in the Seomoz Pro Campaign analyser. On several pages we got the following result

No More Than One Canonical URL Tag

Number of Canonical tags

<dl>

<dd>2</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>The canonical URL tag is meant to be employed only a single time on an individual URL (much like the title element or meta description). To ensure the search engines properly parse the canonical source, employ only a single version of this tag.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>Remove all but a single canonical URL tag</dd>

</dl>

I have looked into the source code of one of the pages http://www.sabaileela.co.uk/acupuncture-london and can see that there are two "canonical" tags.

Does anyone have any advise on which one I should ask the developer to remove?  I am not sure how to determine the relative importance of either link.

I have a retail business in the UK whose website has *.com address and it has taken 3 years to reach a page rank of 3.

We are building an updated site which will have a completely new url structure and optimized for SEO.

We are considering launching the new site at a *.co.uk as we understand this will have advantages in local search and ranking as we are primarily targeting UK traffic.

Does anyone have comments on **.com vs .co.uk and/or have any advice on how to handle the migration while minimizing any drop in traffic and ranking?