After I 301 redirect duplicate pages to my rel=canonical page, do I need to add any tags or code to the non canonical pages?

[PFTools]

I have many duplicate pages. Some pages have 2-3 duplicates. Most of which have Uppercase and Lowercase paths (generated by Microsoft IIS).  Does this implementation of 301 and rel=canonical suffice? Or is there more I could do to optimize the passing of duplicate page link juice to the canonical.

THANK YOU!

[Mike.Goracke]

If I am understanding you correctly, you shouldn't need to rel=canonical anything in this case if you are 301 redirecting everything.

Typically you will use the rel=canonical if you are unable to implement a 301 or if a page can be accessed multiple ways, but has a unique URL.

Implementing the 301 will direct the link juice from the duplicate pages to the "original" page.

Also, just a note if you don't know already, IIS actually has a setting that enforces lowercase URLs and will automatically generate a redirect rule to implement them.

Hope this helps.

Mike