Hi,

In my site, I use a php expression - as such -

header.php -

On page -

$canonical = "http://www.domain.com";

Here is a recent Blog Post if the above code does not help

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advanced-relcanonical-http-headers

Shane

Not to knock anyone who went there....

My sister went there for their recording engineer program - and as a evaluation based off of school only, not necessarily the program in question:

They seem to hire alot of their own students to be teachers...

You work with the latest and greatest equipment, but in the real world the latest and greatest is usually few an far between

It is a self paced program, which has advantages and disadvantages - Meaning almost anyone can do a "Brain Dump" but retaining that knowledge and being able to practically apply it is what is important (but this is a prob at most American schools these days)

I also am jaded by the whole certificate thing, cause I come from IS where there is a certification for everything, but the certifications amount to jack squat   in practical knowledge

Shane

It would really have to be....

The only reason for a %5C is the use of backslash - as that is actually what it means in code.

**business site occasionally break **

How do you mean "break" ?

My crawl diagnostics here in my SEOMox campaign show 19-20 urls doing this - it's nuts.

Is the only issue from this in SEOMOZ reports?

If you would like to PM me the site I can attempt to profile it

It appears from research it is actually \   (backslash)  not / (slash)

So possibly somewhere in your site you have used \ instead of /  but of course this is just a possibility, as it appears that %5C is the delimiter or interpretation of \ in original Unix.

Hope this helps

PS a quick check at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp verified %5c is URL encode, for backslash - as it is treated as a special character, so somewhere in your CMS or code, you have used backslash instead of slash.

whatever Google's default is in GWT - It sets it for you.

You can change it, but it is not reccomended unless for a specific reason (such as Michael Lewis's specific scenario) even though, I am not completely sold that Gbot is what is causing the "dealbreaking" overhead.

Hi,

Your admins saying that, is like someone saying "we need to shut the site down, we are getting to much traffic!" Common sys-admin response (fix it somewhere else)

4GB a day downloaded, is alot of Bot traffic, but it appears you are a "real time" site, that is probably actually helped and maybe even reliant on your high crawl rate....

I would upgrade hardware - or even look into some kind of off site cloud redundancy for failover (Hybrid)

I highly doubt that 4GB a day, is a "dealbreaker",but of course that is just based off the one image, and your admins probably have resource monitors - Maybe Varnish is an answer for static content to help lighten load???? Or CDN for file hosting to lighten bandwidth load?

Shane