Jan
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Canonical tag used for pagination – is it right?

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Apologies for the lack of posting, although I have a decent excuse as I broke my arm playing football two weeks ago! One handed typing does take its toll! I should have posted this earlier, but I did a blog for Intelligent Positioning on “Who is winning the early Christmas race?” and I noticed that Firebox had ignored the pagination rules and placed a canonical tag from all archived page to an “all” page. I’ll explain the methodology a little more and then you can have your say on whether this works or not.

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May
29

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XML sitemaps support rel=alternate tag

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Apologies for the lack of posting in the past month, I’ve been so busy and have just come back from a wonderful weekend in the Cotswolds with my wife. But enough about that – you’ve come here to read about a new way to setup your alternate content through an XML sitemap. Google recently blogged about a new standard and method to setup rel=alternate tags through your XML sitemap. Here we’ll do some testing as we did with the original rel=alternate blog to show you how it works – also for cross domain setup.

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Apr
25

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rel=alternate tag cross domain study

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Having created an original rel=alternate study that focused on internal content, I wanted to test whether or not you could setup this on a cross-domain basis. I’m very pleased to announce that you can indeed set this up on a cross domain basis and I’ve included my results below.

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Apr
11

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Should Google use rel=alternate on insights?

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I use Google Insights quite a lot and I think that the data you can extract from it, in its most basic form, is the first obvious step to keyword discovery if you embark on a new SEO project. Looking in the SERPs today, I noticed that Google.co.uk now has a version of insights, which is identical to Google.com.

I checked the backend code to look for a canonical tag and more importantly a rel=alternate tag. Both were not present, so I ask the question – why isn’t Google using the tag on their own products but are recommending webmasters use it on multi lingual and multi regional websites?

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Feb
21

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Rel=alternate tag update & examples

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Due to this blog being relatively new, it has taken some time for this experiment to provide any results. I’m glad to say, that in the last couple of days, what I had predicted in the original rel=alternate tag post actually happened. Using the rel=alternate tag, I was able to provide an example of serve up very similar content to a UK audience and to an Australia audience.

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Dec
9

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New Twitter design is now live

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Twitter has just launched its brand new interface with a new ‘discover’ option in the top menu bar. The transition from the old layout to this new one looks to be a lot smoother than the last time Twitter attempted to jazz up their style. There is far more page equity given to tweets; a welcomed move by Twitter if you ask me.

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