Thu Jan 10 04:02:43 PST 2019

You say you want another option though?
Canonical URL Tag
reduce instances of duplicate content on a single site and canonicalize to an individual URL
(This
can also be used from one URL on one domain to a different URL on a different domain
)
Title element
and Meta Description tag
This simply uses a new rel parameter

The Canonical URL tag attribute is similar in many ways to a 301 redirect from an SEO
(which a 301 does), without actually redirecting visitors to the new URL (often saving your
development staff considerable heartache)

How we do it
SEOmoz has worked on several campaigns where two versions of every content page existed in
linked to both versions, and many external links pointed to both as well (this is a common
phenomenon, as bloggers & social media types like to link to print-friendly versions to avoid
advertising)
We worked to individually 301 re-direct all of the print-friendly versions of the
content back to the originals and created a CSS option to show the page in printer-friendly format
(on the same URL)
This resulted in a boost of more than 20% in search engine traffic within 60
days
Not bad for a project that only required an hour to identify and a few clever rules in the
htaccess file to fix


How scrapers like your rankings
Unfortunately, the web is filled with hundreds of thousands (if not
millions) of unscrupulous websites whose business and traffic
models depend on plucking the content of other sites and re-using
them (sometimes in strangely modified ways) on their own domains

This practice of fetching your content and re-publishing is called
outranking sites for their own content and displaying ads (ironically,
This would tell Yahoo!, Bing & Google that the page in question
should be treated as though it were a copy of the URL
www
seomoz
org/blog and that all of the link & content
metrics the engines apply should technically flow back to that
URL