[wp-hackers] Canonical integration into core

[Joost de Valk]

I don't want to doubt your skills, but I sorta do... :-) You simply  
can't overuse the canonical tag, if anything wide spread use would  
make se's use it more, not less.

On 17 feb 2009, at 17:24, Nathan Rice <ncrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joost,
> This is one of my main concerns with it being "on by default".  I  
> cringe
> when I think about utter saturation of a new "SEO technique".  It  
> makes the
> technique useless. Think meta keywords, description, and keyword  
> stuffing in
> <title>.
>
> FWIW, the nofollow was to fight spam, primarily, was it not?
>
> But generally, I agree with Cutts ... it should be a core option.   
> But make
> it a friggin' template tag.
>
> Just say NO to saturation! ;-)
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Sound bite from Matt Cutts, in reply to me telling him about this
>> discussion:
>>
>> "that's great! Canonical tags should be added to WP core cautiously  
>> and
>> with thoughtful deliberation, but I support it."
>>
>> Best,
>> Joost
>>
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