[wp-hackers] Canonical & Best Practices for Paged Comment

[Stephen Rider]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:29 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:

>> So your comments would still be indexed.
>
> I think you may be wrong on this. I think that it is likely that  
> google will request the canonical URL and index that one.  If not,  
> then I can see how rel="canonical" could become a haven for  
> spammers.  Imagine someone specifying that their root is the  
> canonical for thousands of pages...

"indexed" != "counted toward pagerank"