[wp-hackers] Canonical & Best Practices for Paged Comment

[mikeschinkel at newclarity.net]

Joost may be able to find out from Matt Cutts?

-Mike

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On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Stephen Rider <wp- 
hackers at striderweb.com> wrote:

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>> On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Stephen Rider <wp- 
>> hackers at striderweb.com> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:29 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
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>>>>> So your comments would still be indexed.
>>>>
>>>> I think you may be wrong on this. I think that it is likely that  
>>>> google will request the canonical URL and index that one.  If  
>>>> not, then I can see how rel="canonical" could become a haven for  
>>>> spammers.  Imagine someone specifying that their root is the  
>>>> canonical for thousands of pages...
>>>
>>> "indexed" != "counted toward pagerank"
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> On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:37 AM, mikeschinkel at newclarity.net wrote:
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>> Of course, but are you sure that is the case here?
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> No, but unless someone on this list a) works for Google, and b) is  
> giving away corporate secrets, nobody else does either.
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> It just seemed that some people were conflating the two.
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> Stephen
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