I managed to ping Google’s @mattcutts after the announcement of rel=”author” support from Google on Twitter and he clarified the use case a little.
As Twitter’s search is still so terrible at finding things I am adding the conversation here.
Read more on rel=”author” is Same-Site Only…
Canonicalization is a serious problem for webmasters, just read this latest entry by Matt Cutts or this great post from John Andrews. However telling webmasters that they should fix these issues isn’t enough, webmasters & bloggers need solutions.
A couple of months ago Alister Cameron posted a simple solution to .htaccess such that you didn’t need to use a plugin to convert URLs using www to URLs without.
At the time I suggested a couple of improvements, and also mentioned I would post about it here on my blog, hopefully to help
