Rel=canonical on landing page question

[znotes]

Currently we have two versions of a category page on our site (listed below)

Version A: www.example.com/category

•    lives only in the SERPS but does not live on our site navigation

•    has links

•    user experience is not the best

Version B: www.example.com/category?view=all

•    lives in our site navigation

•    has a rel=canonical to version A

•    very few links and doesn’t appear in the SERPS

•    user experience is better than version A

Because the user experience of version B is better than version A I want to take out the rel=canonical in version B to version A and instead put a rel=canonical to version B in version A. If I do this will version B show up in the SERPS eventually and replace version A? If so, how long do you think this would take? Will this essentially pass page rank from version A to version B

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

Alot of this sounds off to me. First, I'd think you'd want /category living in the navigation, be indexed, have links, and have a great user experience.

In my mind, www.example.com/category?view=all should only exist as a filtering URL when you change the number of URLs you want to see on the page itself.

You'll have substantially more luck focusing on version A in my opinion. Focus on creating a great user experience and optimization strategy, and you should reap the benefits at a deeper level.

Let me know if this helps! Good luck!
Patrick