Bing has added URL normalization suggestions. URL normalization allows you to tell Bing which URLs in your site have query parameters. URL Normalization Starting with a very open session at SES New York earlier this year, Bing has been asking...
There are other ways to accomplish the same thing, via rel canonical meta tags and URL normalization and parameter handling in the Bing and Google webmaster toolsets, respectively. URL structure often presents challenges for large sites, especially...
Parameter handling is the best way to deal with URL normalization for Bing, since 301s are problematic and rel=canonical isn't yet supported. URL structure and canonicalization, internal linking, rel=canonical tags, XML sitemaps, robots exclusions...
Yahoo's keyword normalization was a lot different than Bing's (or Google's, for that matter). Microsoft's keyword normalization is much more in line with Google's, meaning you'll wind up with much better coverage by porting over your Google...
The first tip he offered up was canonicalization, also known as normalization. This is the concept of only exposing URL per piece of content to the engines. If you have or work for a large site, search engine optimization can be quite the undertaking.
Systems and methods for inferring uniform resource locator (URL) normalization rules The following patent filing from Microsoft's Marc Najork visits some of the same territory, looking carefully at ways to pick the best single URL for pages that...
Also, while some URL normalization was done by the study, it still seems like mirror or duplicate pages may have been counted. Now a new paper puts it at 11.5 billion pages or more, for January 2005. The Indexable Web is more than 11.5 billion...
