Canonical tag - link juice to the frontpage

[seopeter29]

I only wants to be 100% sure about using the canonical tag..

I want to use it on pages that rankes together with the frontpage in Google, but i only want the frontpage to rank alone and to have the link juice from the other 2 sites direct-ed to the frontpage.. Hope you agre that its the correct way to doo so??

Wich one is correct:

http://www.testtest.com/”>

Or this

http://www.testtest.com/”/>

[donford]

As html both are correct, the /> is a standard close tag, however browsers and crawlers do not require the "/"  to know the tag is closed.

In XML you would close the with a standard close tag .

That should answer the technical question.

I also want to mention something about what you wrote. "I want to use it on pages that rankes together with the frontpage in Google, but i only want the frontpage to rank alone and to have the link juice from the other 2 sites direct-ed to the frontpage.."

You should understand the purpose of Canonical tags is really used to keep pages from competing with each other. A good example is if you have a page with info but you also want to give users a printer friendly version (you don't want those pages competing).

If you have two pages with stronger content then your home page for "Keyword X" you could be doing yourself a dis-service by trying to rank a weaker page.