Tami - 2:46 am on Dec 13, 2012 (gmt 0)

zarathustra2011 and goodroi and all,

I have the canonical tags set on every page.

Great read, time to make sure all my sites have canonical tags.

I am confused. Are you using the rel=”canonical” tag on all your sites pages to protect your site from content thieves and scrappers?

I thought the rel=”canonical” tag was for duplicate pages within the same site. And, that you put the rel=”canonical” tag in the Header of the pages that are duplicate and point the tags link to the URL of the preferred non-duplicated page.

When you say "have the canonical tags set on every page" did you put the rel=”canonical” tag with a link to that pages own URL? For example: example.com/index.html the canonical tag in its header would be: <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/index.html/>

Is this correct? If so should we be doing this?