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Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your ...
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/produ ...
inside the <head> section of the duplicate content URLs:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&cat ...
... e PageRank

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Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your preferred version:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

inside the <head> section of the duplicate content URLs:

http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&category=gummy-candy
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&trackingid=1234&sessionid=5678


and Google will understand that the duplicates all refer to the canonical URL: http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish. Additional URL properties, like PageRank and related signals, are transferred as well.

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Now, you can simply add this <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">&lt;link&gt;</span></span></b> tag to specify your preferred version:<br> <br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><b>&lt;link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" /&gt;</b></span></span><br><br>inside the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">&lt;head&gt;</span></span></b> section of the duplicate content URLs:<br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&amp;category=gummy-candy<br>http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&amp;trackingid=1234&amp;sessionid=5678</span></span><br><br>and Google will understand that the duplicates all refer to the canonical URL: <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish</span></span>. Additional URL properties, like PageRank and related signals, are transferred as well.