Using Canonical URL to poin to an external page

[llamb]

I was wondering if I can use a canonical URL that points to a page residing on external site? So a page like:
www.site1.com/whatever.html will have a canonical link in its header to www.site2.com/whatever.html.

Thanks.

[SamuelScott]

Yes, you can. In the section of the page, put a line of code like this:

rel="canonical" href="FULL EXTERNAL URL" />

[spencerhjustice]

You definitely can. Also, here's a whiteboard Friday on the topic of cross domain rel="canonical" tags: http://moz.com/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday