epages short URL's and canonical tag

[Bertie]

I have seen one or two suggestions by BT that the short URL now available in the BT eShop will act as a canonical tag and solve the serious search engine problems caused by duplicate sites being created by having a www.mydomain.co.uk address and the www.btowstore.com/epages/BT.....sf/en address.

According to Google, the canonical tag will not work across domains, although it will work across sub domains.

301 redirects apparently can work across domains.

The obvious concern is that Google will see the two sample addresses shown above as two different domains and therefore the canonical tag will not work.

Can someone from BT allay my fears and explain:

a) how Google will view the duplicate sites, and

b) confirm that the canonical tag will in fact work, and improve SEO on the eShops

Many thanks.

[Bertie]

Hello BT

Any idea when this is scheduled for?

Regards

Bertie

[Bertie]

Hello BT

I see we are once again back to the situation where I have to chase you for a reply!

[Bertie]

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[Bertie]

Looking at the epages release notes, the following is shown as being included in version 6.9.0 released by epages on 9.2.10.

"Canonical link for SSL-pages [SF][EPG-12436]

A canonical link is added to the pages if ShortURLs are used. If the shop runs under SSL without own certificate the SSL domain of the provider is used. In such case the domain of the SSL page and the domain in the canonical link are different. That causes duplicate content and other problems. Therefore the canonical link won't be inserted if the page runs under SSL."

Is it envisaged that this will solve the problem, and when is the current eShop being upgraded from version 6.0.6.5?

Regards

Bertie

[Bertie]

Any news?

[Bertie]

Is there anybody there??

[eShopTeam]

Dear Bertie,

we do not have a date of the upgrade jet.

Kind Regards,

[costas]

It has been almost 2 years since this post, It seems cononical tags are still being used and is it possible to get an update on this BT?  Many thanks Costa