Posts Tagged ‘Canonical’

Catfish is Back! What’s new in SEO for 2010

October 14th, 2009 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Hello everyone.  Really sorry I have been gone from the blog for so long.  The last four months have been absolutely crazy around here and to be honest I have been a little overwhelmed keeping up with everything that has been going on.  The good news is that the chaos is a direct result of all the increased business that BusinessOnLine has gotten this year and the incredible growth that is happening around the company.  We have doubled our SEO team this year and we are getting ready to start hiring SEO analysts again here in San Diego!  Look for those job listings to be available soon in the careers section of the site.  Additionally, we have been hard at work growing our process based on all the new advancements in search that have happened (more…)

Eliminate Potential Google Duplicate Content Penalty with SEO Tag "REL=Canonical"

March 3rd, 2009 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock


Upon further review of the new tag rel=canonical, that is used to let search engines know what URL you want indexed for any given page of your site, I can’t find any reason why you wouldn’t want to make it a standard part of every Web page on your site. This tag proactively handles a number of potential duplicate content issues.

*special note about “duplicate content penalties”: Some people feel that it is very important to be clear that a duplicate content “penalty” is not really a penalty. Google is not punishing your site for having a Web page that has the same content as another Web page. But what it is happening is, (more…)

Google Announces New SEO Tool to Stop Duplicate Content Problems!

February 13th, 2009 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Good news from Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live who have announced support for the rel=”canonical” tag. This new tag with the following syntax: (more…)

A Preview of my 2009 Online Marketing Summit (OMS) Presentation on Long Tail SEO Strategies

January 6th, 2009 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock


Wow time sure does fly. Seems like only yesterday I was doing my SEO for 2008 presentation at OMS 2008 here in San Diego and now it’s already 2009! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again this year and getting another opportunity to talk SEO with so many other industry professionals. And, what’s really exciting for me is that this year, Rand Fishkin will be (more…)