One of the grand challenges on the Web is canonical identification. Its easy enough launch resources into the aethers. If the organization is naturally oriented towards persistence, even that, in general, is tractable. One's constituents tend to howl when you don't keep this promise.
But choosing a good identifier and making it stick is pretty hard. Identifier functional characteristics often conflict with one another, and the identifiers favored by business purposes (which pretty much always carry the day) aren't necessarily optimal from a perspective of long term persistence and management.
One aspect of the problem just got easier. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have agreed on a convention for identifying the canonical identifier for a given resource that may be rendered under different transactional URLs.
It is a simple, elegant solution that requires no new tags... rather, a new attribute on the link tag that has been around since the beginning. No new technology: just add consensus. Search engine optimization (SEO) just got easier.
This is a step forward in making the Web a more coherent place. See, among others, Mark8t.com blog
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The Buddy System: our dishwasher has a pre-wash setting with marginal carbon footprint of zero. Other sorts of footprints can be problematic.
They've done a pretty decent job thus far of getting together on things and setting standards. Nice to see that from old MS ... now if only they'd build IE to comply with W3C standards. :)
Posted by: SEO services. | July 23, 2009 at 09:59 PM
Anytime there are standards set in the industry, it definitely makes everything easier for everyone. I'm glad that the "big three" got together on this... it definitely aids everyone praticing SEO.
By the way, I love the unrelated dog ;-p.
Posted by: Richard Smith | July 19, 2009 at 03:40 PM
I guess this dog has become very much spoiled by you...
Posted by: SEO | July 09, 2009 at 02:28 PM
Nice work dude... It is helpful for me as well as others..
Posted by: SEO Consultant | July 04, 2009 at 11:12 PM
I guess my carbon footprint is still at Lollypop Farm....
Posted by: Cindy Easterly | March 03, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Much to say, but my ability to say it is completely derailed by your adorable, adorable dog!
Posted by: Tim Spalding | February 16, 2009 at 02:33 PM