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By: Chris Creed

Chris Creed — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:48 +0000

No problem Amber

By: Amber @ Classic Housewife

Amber @ Classic Housewife — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:01:57 +0000

Thank you so much for all your help! I see your point. I’ll read that other article, too. Thanks again!

By: Chris Creed

Chris Creed — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:27:09 +0000

Canonical tags are primarily for dealing with duplicate content – what you’re talking about doing here is PageRank (PR) sculpting which is quite an advanced SEO topic. It is certainly possible to pass PR around a site – however, it may not always be best to focus your attention on your site’s homepage – especially for a WordPress site. This is because a blog homepage is dynamic and constantly changing – instead, you might want to focus more on your posts and static pages and optimize these for some specific keyphrases. Having a higher PR for these pages is good because it means you’re more likely to rank well in the search engines for the keywords you’ve targeted and as a result may drive more traffic to your site. However, as I say, there are lots of differing views on this – you might want to check out this interesting article on Page Rank Sculpting to learn more. Hope this helps

By: Amber @ Classic Housewife

Amber @ Classic Housewife — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:30:30 +0000

The sub-domains are divisions of my blog, and all posts are syndicated on the front page. I did make the syndications post as excerpts so that should take care of the duplicate content issue. However, as individual articles get linked to, it raises the page rank of the sub-domain only. (Or at least I assume – they don’t all have the same page rank right now.) I was hoping they could all be “linked” SEO-wise to the main domain so that any links to any sub-domain would help the page rank of the main domain. Is that even possible? That’s what I was hoping to accomplish with the canonical tags.

By: Chris Creed

Chris Creed — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:22:03 +0000

Hi Amber – I guess the question of whether you should do this depends on whether or not you have duplicate content on your sub-domains. If you don’t, then it might not be worth doing – although I assume you probably do given that you asked the question I’ve not tested it myself, but I believe canonical tags should work for sub-domains. However, if you have any links/PageRank for your sub-domains it might be worth using a 301 redirect to tell the search engines that you want to *permanently* redirect the sub-domains to your main domain (this will help to keep the benefits of the links and maintain PageRank). There are plugins that could potentially help with this – for example, Redirection

By: Chris Creed

Chris Creed — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:57:14 +0000

Thanks Chris – glad it was useful.

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