Hello,
I see that just a couple of days ago, bing indexed my https://www.banknorwegian.no/sites/banknorwegian/norwegian/pages/forbrukslaan.aspx page although I have <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.banknorwegian.no/Pages/Forbrukslaan.aspx" /> in the header. At the same time it indexes the canonical page.
Why does this happen? Shouldn't just the canonical page be indexed as a seperate page? (The canonical link being treated approx like a 301 redirect?) I know your goal is not to be google, but it seems like that is how they handle it, and would be great if these things got treated in a similar way.
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Hi,
accourding to our blog post, http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx, the canonical tag is used as a hint only.
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One of the largest hosting companies in the UK makes it almost impossible to setup 301 redirects. So the answer you get back to this question directly affects a lot of uk sites. Google has thrown a lifeline to those in a similar position with the rel="canonical". I hope you get a positive from Bing on this.
Thanks for the concrete answer. Allthough not the answer I was hoping for as it clearly keeps three version of an identical page in the index, at least I know what I have to do... Start bugging the webmasters about normalization of the webpages :)
Brett, that page you reference also states, "Live Search expects to implement support for this feature sometime in the near future." Can you give a more concrete answer as to when this feature will be supported?
Also, can you give a definition of what "hint" means in this context? In computer programming, there really is no such thing as a "hint". A computer program, which the Bing search engine is, will do something completely predictable, namely, what it's been programmed to do, based upon some given input. Would be nice if you could list those factors for us.
Search engines handle things similar because they are constantly working on being better, and as they improve they tend to be very similar in order to give their users what they need, if not they would lose share market. So they have features that are similar but they have things that also make them different, that is how competition works.
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I think that by "hint" it means it gives it a specific weight within the desicion to use it or not. If enough things point towards that hint as being correct, then it uses it. The sitemap and redirects could be other factors too. Even the existing backlinks could be factors in the decision..
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Well, according to http://searchengineland.com/bing-still-working-on-canonical-tag-support-32163 they currently do not support it yet.
This rel="canonical" tag is seen as a hint by Bing, and not as a command. It evaluates the tag in the context of other information about the concerned site and determines the canonical URL on its own.
So, it's not a must that MSNBot has to obey the rule.
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Quality…, read the post above. It is in black and white. They DO NOT support it at all right now. Not as a command and not as a hint.
Barry.., not sure about that. I think it is the cross-domain that they do not support at all at the moment. And than the ordinary single domain cannonical they have som kind of support for, but obviously not completly. As the original question asker, I have gone all 301 redirects...
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rel="canonical" tag is seen as a hint by Bing, and not as a command
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