Solving Printer Friendly version

[SEOTeam35]

How do we solve an issue faced on the Printer Friendly version of the page lets say, There is an Actual Page (Page A) and a Printer friendly version (Page B) of Page A. Page A is ranking at position 5 and Page B is not ranking. Both these pages are indexed by Google and most of the backlinks are going to Page B as compared to Page A.

one of the ways is to implement Canonical on Page B. Are there some other ways to solve the issue and how can we implement it?

How can ensure that all the links going to page B pass on the link value to Page A.

[ResslerMotors]

Here's what SeoMoz says about it: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

[STPseo]

In summary: Canonical the print friendly page back to the main page. If you don't want to use canonical and want to keep it as it's own page - make sure you have a unique title tag and description - you could add "Print Version" to them.

I'd recommend using the canonical however as that will probably help page A and you want have A and B competing with each other.

[AdoptionHelp]

A cleaner way to do this is to use a print css file. In your HTML you call it like so:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="our-print-version.css">

Then you have only one document for both print and screen, and you can 301 one of your duplicates back to the original.