New SEO Tag on Canonicalization

The big 3 search engines have come together to support a new meta tag.

It is very rare that the Big 3 join up on the same thing. It must be something good, right??

The new meta tag deals with the canonicalization issue deals with multiple url paths that reference the same content.

An example of this would be:

http://www.domain.com/johny5.aspx?id=45
http://www.domain.com/johny5.aspx?id=45&this=true

If these urls actually display the same exact content, to keep search engines from indexing both you can use the new tag as follows:

Here is more information on Google Blog on this

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