Rel-Canonical Changes

[Muhammad-Isap]

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[yuvastyle]

Hey,

You could able to change the URL and try to update over the Google Webmaster tool with updating the sitemap.

I think you are developing your website into the ASP.NET. It include routing function through which you could able to change the URL of the website.

[Muhammad-Isap]

No, we're using a CMS based upon Syntasso.

How would I use webmaster tools to do that?

[yuvastyle]

First up all you need to change the URL.

Then generate a sitemap.

And Submit over the Google webmaster tool.

Do you use the Google webmaster tool? Let me know so that I could help you .

[donford]

Hi John

While getting your keywords in the url is important, you will find that you may start running into long url warnings. Which can actually negatively affect your SEO efforts. Please see Dr. Pete's post on URLS here. Specifically the long url section (3).

That being said, it would not actually have much barring on you if you're using canonical to redirect the page authority back to a central location. However I'm confused that you're trying to add more keywords to the url if you're only going to rel canonical them back to a main url.

I would be happy to offer my advise on this but I'm not 100% sure on what you want to achieve, the sitemap discussion doesn't seem to be on par with what you're asking about unless I'm completely misunderstanding something here.

[Muhammad-Isap]

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[donford]

"I'd like the page to rank for 'Care Home Claims', but as you can see, that isn't the phrase currently being used in the URL: www.asons.co.uk/Claims/Accidents-in-care-homes/21569"

True, but the keywords are in the url... order does matter but having them in the url is much better then not at all. www.asons.co.uk/Claims/Accidents-in-care-homes/21569

"I would like to amend the URL to reflect the keyword focus. Currently the page is a 'B' - so hopefully this change will push it over the edge to an A. "

The page grader is a very useful tool but you also have to know when it is okay to deviate and ignore some of the results. If you get an A grade for a page that is getting canonicaled to another page then grade doesn't really mean much.

Your original question was about using the canonical tag on a page which already has a canonical tag. For somebody (atleast for me) to answer the question, I would want to know what the url is you want to canonical, where you want to canonical it to and why.

Something like.. url... rubbererducks.com/decoys/red/p-19191
url... rubbererducks.com/decoys/red/p-19198
canonical to... rubberducks.com/decoys/red/
Because product pages are similar just different artist

That would help us help you