Article : Should-large-corporations-use-rel-canonical - Last Review: May 19, 2011 Should large corporations use rel=canonical?
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Short term answer is probably take a little bit of time, study your site architecture, think about URL normalization, beautification, whatever you want to call it think about the structure of URLs you want to have and take a few weeks or few months or couple of months you sort of assess where you want to go. It is not needed to throw the canonical tag on every single page on your site immediately and move it around, because it is a powerful tool and people do have the ability to shoot themselves on their foot. So on the plus side we've seen a quarter of a million pages show up within just a few days, where people are using this canonicalization tag, which is fantastic. It is good to see the traction and the adoption move very quickly.
On the down side if you have a home page and the home page was doing a redirect and if you also had a canonical tag and the canonical tag pointed to a page that Google hadn't crawled at all and so those sort of cases can be very difficult to try to do the right thing, and Google does the right thing. But it can take a couple of days to sort it out or go and find that URL and crawl it.
The longer term answer is that it doesn't hurt to have this on every single page of your site. Ideally you'd find other ways to solve the canonicalization but it doesn't hurt to say on every single page this page maps to this canonicalized, very pretty, very preferred version of this URL. But what you want to do is, you want to make sure that, it is absolute URLs, ideally goes in one hub, it's a logical system that you designed you haven't just jumped out and started playing around with. So feel free to do that but take some time and plan it out a little bit.
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