Can I Use Canonical for all Pages?

[ahdtravel]

Hi,

Can I use canonical Tag for All Pages?, I had Portal Website, Genrating urls Dynamically. can I Use canonical tag for All Pages........

thanks
Ahdtravel

[Receptional Andy]

There is no limit on the amount of URLs that can include a canonical tag. You just need to make sure you are using it correctly to pick an appropriate "best" URL for any duplicates you create.

Personally, I don't think the canonical tag is anything like a panacea, and I would always favour addressing problems that are causing the need for the canonical tag in the first place. But, that can sometimes be too expensive to justify, so I'll fallback on the tag if I have to.

[Asia_Expat]

I agree it's not a panacea. However, I've got the latest version of IPB set up on my server with the out of the box FURLs crafted to fit my own website. I also have cruft free URLs on my static content. The net result is that it would be a massive hodge podge of hacks and workarounds in htacces to make the forum URLs redirect from non-canonical to canonical...

So the forum thankfully dynamically generates the canonical entry in the source code and negates the need for the messy htaccess cludges.

To answer the OP, every forum topic on my site have the canonical tag and it works well.

[conor]

We had some problems with dupliacte URLS's due to inbound links using Caps etc , added canonical tags indicating the lower case version and it fixed the proble. Currently in use on site with >100K indexed pages without issue.