Did I implement the Canonical Correctly?

[JeffFerraro]

Hello,

I am trying for the first time to implement a canonical redirect on a page and would really appreciate it if someone could tell me if this was done correctly.

I am trying to do a canonical redirect:

-from http://www.diamondtours.com/default.aspx

-to http://www.diamondtours.com/

As you will see in the source code of the default.aspx page, the line of code written is:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.diamondtours.com" />

Is this correct?  Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Jeffrey Ferraro

[Aftermath_SEO]

The way you have implemented it is correct to eliminate the possibility of duplicate content issues. However, with that being said, the canonical tag is not a re direct. It only acts as a pointer to search engines telling them which page has the original content, it will not redirect users to a certain page, and will not stop the page from coming up as http://www.diamondtours.com/default.aspx. If you are trying to get rid of the /default.aspx, you will need to add some things in your .htaccess file.

If that's what your trying to accomplish, I can point you in the right direction for that.

[JeffFerraro]

Yes, please point me in the right direction for this!!! Thank you so much!

[LDS-SEO]

Others may have some better resources, but these have been helpful to me:

for IIS servers: http://bit.ly/kPlYVQ

for Apache: http://bit.ly/j83UGO

Hopefully those are still relevant guides.  It's been a year or so since I've used them, but still had them in my bookmarks!

[Aftermath_SEO]

Yeap that looks right, I was just about to post some more information, thanks.