[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],[],[[["\u003cp\u003eGoogle and other search engines now support a canonical link element to help website owners address duplicate content issues.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eMatt Cutts' presentation from SMX West on canonicalization is available as a video and slides.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eAsk.com has also announced its support for the canonical link element.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eGoogle has launched a webmaster videos channel on YouTube featuring webmaster-related content.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["Google and other search engines announced support for a canonical link element to help with duplicate content issues. A presentation from SMX West on this topic was shared via video and direct slide access. Ask.com also announced support for the element. A new webmaster videos channel on YouTube was launched, and users were encouraged to subscribe for updates on Google webmaster-related videos.\n"],null,["# Canonical Link Element: presentation from SMX West\n\n| It's been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore).\n\nWednesday, February 25, 2009\n\n\nA little while ago,\n[Google](/search/blog/2009/02/specify-your-canonical)\nand other\n[search](https://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fighting-duplication-adding-more-arrows-to-your-quiver/)\n[engines](https://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx)\nannounced support for a\n[canonical link element that can help site owners with duplicate content issues](/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls).\nI recreated my presentation from\n[SMX West](https://searchmarketingexpo.com/west)\nand you can watch it below: \n\n\nYou can\n[access the slides directly](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FpSpfd2sS3b3uoWdS7Pddss3XweQ4ncBltQCV_BY0v0)\nor follow along here:\n\n\nBy the way, Ask just announced that they will support the canonical link element. Read all about\nit in the\n[Ask.com blog entry](https://blog.ask.com/2009/02/ask-is-going-canonical).\n\n\nThanks again to [Wysz](https://www.thewysz.com/) for turning this\ninto a great video.\n\n\nIn fact, you might not have seen it, but we recently\n[created a webmaster videos channel on YouTube](/search/blog/2009/02/introducing-google-webmaster-central).\nIf you're interested, you can\n[watch the new webmaster channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/GoogleSearchCentral).\nIf you subscribe to that channel, you'll always find out about new webmaster-related videos from\nGoogle.\n\nPosted by [Matt Cutts](https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/), Search Quality Team"]]
