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Include Cross Domain Canonical URL's in Sitemap - Yes or No?

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Include Cross Domain Canonical URL's in Sitemap - Yes or No? Product Search Guy 7/3/12 4:31 PM I am have several sites that have cross domain canonical tags setup on similar pages.  I am unsure if these pages that are canonicalized to a different domain should be included in the sitemap.  My first thought is no, because I should only include p
Re: Include Cross Domain Canonical URL's in Sitemap - Yes or No? webado 7/3/12 10:31 PM All the urls in a sitemap must be on the same domain (right down to the canonical for and https or https protocol). Cross domain canonical urls are not a good idea. If you have http://example.com/pageA.html and set the canonical to http://example2.com/pageB.html w
Re: Include Cross Domain Canonical URL's in Sitemap - Yes or No? Product Search Guy 7/6/12 11:46 AM Sometimes sharing content on multiple sites is a acceptable.  To help inform Googlebot that this content is duplicate, a cross domain canonical tag is used. Why do you think they created this tag in the first place?  IMHO, it was to address sites tha
Re: Include Cross Domain Canonical URL's in Sitemap - Yes or No? webado 7/6/12 11:56 AM Link to the correct site or much better consolidate the sites because they are the same company anyway. Other options: use iframes or noindex one version of the page.