BLog: Canonical URL

Sunday, October 13, 2019

What's The Canonical Url Of My Blog?

This weblog is (for those of yous non familiar alongside it) "The Real Blogger Status".

The URL of this weblog is currently "http://blogging.nitecruzr.net". As long equally I discover the weblog properly (as "blogging.nitecruzr.net"), I am allowed to advertise the weblog using whatever combination of lower representative as well as upper representative letters, that I like. This weblog tin transportation away hold upward accessed equally "blogging.nitecruzr.net", "Blogging.Nitecruzr.Net", or fifty-fifty "BlOgGiNg.nitecruzr.net". We state that Blogger URLs are representative insensitive.

Even alongside my readers allowed to role whatever combination of lower as well as upper-case alphabetic quality letters, to access this blog, I don't desire the search engines to index (and range upward one's hear page rank) my weblog using the exact URLs, equally typed past times each unlike reader. Even alongside this weblog beingness addressed equally "blogging.nitecruzr.net", "Blogging.Nitecruzr.Net", or fifty-fifty "BlOgGiNg.nitecruzr.net", the search engines index this weblog equally "blogging.nitecruzr.net".

To help this happen, Blogger uses the "canonical" tag, inwards the weblog header.

The "canonical" tag is non unique to Google.

The "canonical" tag is a cooperative standard.

It was developed equally a measure inwards 2009, jointly, past times Google, Microsoft, as well as Yahoo.

Every Blogger blog, which has a measure as well as upward to appointment header, contains a "canonical" tag.

A Blogger "canonical" tag is used to convert the weblog URL to lowercase characters.

The "canonical" tag provides the base of operations URL of the blog, inwards all lower representative letters, then the search engines know how to ignore diverse syntax variations.

Case variations.
CC TLD aliases.
Any other reader generated variations.

All links are indexed nether ane unified URL, providing amend SERP positioning, as well as more search engine generated traffic.

Look at the origin for this weblog habitation page, inwards the header. Note that yous convey to await at the online "source code" - non at the raw HTML, using the Template Editor!

Here's an excerpt of the header for this blog, alongside a few line breaks added - as well as roughly lines removed - to come inwards to a greater extent than readable.

<head> <meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'/> <meta content='width=1100' name='viewport'/>  ...  <link href='http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/favicon.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/> <link href='http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/' rel='canonical'/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="What's The Canonical URL Of My Blog?" href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="What's The Canonical URL Of My Blog?" href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" /> <link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="What's The Canonical URL Of My Blog?" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24069595/posts/default" /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="What's The Canonical URL Of My Blog?" href="http://www.blogger.com/rsd.g?blogID=24069595" /> <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />

There it is.

<link href='http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/' rel='canonical'/>

My exam blog, "Nitecruzr New Template Laboratory", is however published to "nitecruzrtestnew.blogspot.com".

<link href='http://nitecruzrtestnew.blogspot.com/' rel='canonical'/>

The "canonical" tag is essential for the province code domains.

These records are essential, for blogs published to "blogspot.com", straightaway that Blogger is aliasing our blogs using province code TLD URLs.

My exam blog, for instance, published to "nitecruzrtestnew.blogspot.com", volition hold upward accessed equally "nitecruzrtestnew.blogspot.in" inwards Republic of Republic of India - merely the search engines, which notice the Canonical tag, volition however index whatever links equally "nitecruzrtestnew.blogspot.com".

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Search Engines, Visitor Logs, Too Province Domains

Some weblog owners are seeing the late added Country Code Top Level Domain Aliases inwards their visitor logs / meters, as well as diverse non Google search engines.

Possibly unaware of the aliases, they are afraid that their weblog has been hacked.

My SiteMeter logs present that I've had incoming traffic from "mybloggerblog.blogspot.in". Clicking on i of the links inwards SiteMeter, I run across my blog, "mybloggerblog.blogspot.com". Has mortal cloned my blog?

In reality, the scenario is non as well as then ominous.

Those of us aware of the CC aliases, as well as how they are existence used past times Blogger, volition sympathize that only seeing a non canonical alias inwards our referer lists, inwards whatever search engine or visitor log / meter, is non an indication of malicious activity.

People unfamiliar amongst the province code aliases may endure confused.

People long used to seeing alone "blogspot.com" as well as "google.com", as well as non yet experienced amongst the CC aliases, may operate confused, however. Blogger blogs owners amongst long established blogs that bring audiences exterior the USA are likely used to seeing all references to their blogs based on the canonical URL, such equally "mybloggerblog.blogspot.com".

Now that BlogSpot published blogs are existence served using the CC aliases, inwards many countries exterior the USA, the readers of BlogSpot published blogs are seeing each weblog nether non "blogspot.com" URLs inwards around search engines, as well as inwards many visitor logs as well as meters.

Many search engines volition aggregate search references, to the canonical URL.

Most major search engines, which reference the "canonical" tag inwards the weblog header, are aggregating all SERP entries to role the "blogspot.com" URLs. Our of import search reputation is non existence fragmented, such that readers inwards Commonwealth of Australia furnish reputation to "blogspot.com.au", readers inwards Republic of Republic of India furnish reputation to "blogspot.in", readers inwards New Zealand furnish reputation to "blogspot.co.nz", as well as and then on.

Every hit, from every reader inwards every country, silent provides reputation to the canonical alias, "blogspot.com".

Some specialised search engines similar Alexa, DMOZ, etc - as well as close visitor logs similar SiteMeter, StatCounter, as well as Stats, may non endure designed to reference the canonical tag. It's besides possible that visitor logs, past times their nature, should non aggregate CC aliases to the canonical URL - equally the province code, relevant to the private readers, may endure of import to around weblog owners.

Until the canonical tag is used past times every Internet service, at that spot volition endure confusion.

Until the role of the canonical tag, as well as the CC aliases to our readers, becomes mature, it's possible that nosotros volition run across diverse oddities similar a perceived employment amongst Alexa, SiteMeter, or StatCounter. It's probable that non all Internet services volition always reference the canonical tag consistently, as well as aggregate all statistics as well as visitor demographics, canonically.

Given the latter probability, this may endure yet i to a greater extent than argue why Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken may never larn out of business.

Some Confusion Over Use Of The CC TLD Aliases, By Search Engines And Visitor Logs
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Search Engines And Visitor Logs, And The Country Specific Domains
Search Engines, Visitor Logs, And Country Domains