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Eric, the bot would never see the canonical on the "xyz=123" page with a server-side redirect because it would have already been redirected to the "correct-page" URL. So having a canonical on the "xyz" page wouldn't do anything. Canonicals were intended for pages represented by multiple URL...

Colin, I work day-in and day-out with people that are not as up-to-date when it comes to canonicals. This is especially true with larger corporations that have smaller divisions with a global presence. There is still a huge misunderstanding of canonicals, even two years after this thread was...

It's highly unlikely they would penalize for non-use of a canonical. Google has said that they use the canonical value as a reference and they may not use it at all if other indicators point back to the original URL. We've seen the canonical ignored by Google many times.

Yes, actually BlueHost (a popular, low cost web hosting provider) sent out an email warning site owners about the Responsive Slider plugin and asked them to update it or risk being blacklisted. It's a great plugin used by many photography and gallery type web sites. Hopefully Google doesn't...

It's too bad they don't provide local keyword tracking in their Moz Local tool. I'm sure they're hoping to lure more people to their much higher priced Moz Analytics tool, but to me it makes more sense to include this functionality in their Moz Local tool.

Excellent... thank you so much Phil. That's big help and a relief! Just like you mentioned the moniker "artist" is challenging because Google seems to equate "artists" to musicians more often than not. Not sure why this is, but it can get confusing for those of us involved in the visual arts...

wonderwoman, I believe that I am in compliance with the Google TOS, but I feel like I'm on the edge because: one, I'm a service area business; and two, my primary category is "Artist" What I do is sell my artwork to local businesses, but I don't have a gallery. Instead, I visit my customers at...

The "Brand vs Local Pages" question has been asked before, but I can only find it mentioned back in 2012. I'm wondering about these solutions in 2014. I have a local page for my online art business that is doing fairly well for my targeted searches. Much of my artwork involves local landmarks...