A “new” way to handle page redirects for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Traditionally redirecting a standard HTML page on a Windows server has been tricky especially if you don’t have access to the server config.
This may now have changed. I was watching an interview with one of the Google “Geeks”, and he was explaining that Search engines have agreed a new standard for redirects. (In addition to 301 which is still perfectly legitimate):
Here is a link to the interview if you are interested
The method is simple & involves adding a tag to the top of the page
link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/example.php”
where href = points to the page you want the search engine to index.
(note: This needs to be put in the normal opening & closing tags <......./> in the header of the document)