Cross domain canonical and hreflang

[Trespass]

Hi Guys,

So we are close to launching our new site and just need to be sure that our canonical, duplicate issues are sorted before launch. So here is our current situation. The current site is on trespass.co.uk. Then new site will be on trespass.com.

The new launch is global and we will have the 3 stores within magento all in english.

Trespass.com for the UK
Trespass.com/US for US
Trespass.com/ROW for all other countries

On trespass.com we have the following:

On trespass.com/US we have the following:

On trespass.com/ROW we have the following:

This is how the magento developers.design company have set it up but am I right in saying the canonical tag for each store (/ROW and /US) should point to Trespass.com as the only difference is in the pricing £ $ and euros?

Thanks for your help

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Yes you are correct, if the price is the only thing different I would point the canonical to: http://trespass.com/

[JaneCopland]

Hi there,

There's a bunch of conflicting information floating around about this, but the last thing I read from Google was that they no longer recommended using the canonical tag when implementing hreflang: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html

See the greyed / crossed-out section and the note underneath.

It was super helpful of them to not announce this in any way, but just edit that article. Keep in mind that the original was written in 2011, of course...