SEO Skeptic

Was crawling around today (er, maybe that doesn't sound too good) and had forgotten to change my user agent switcher from Googlebot.  I landed on Amazon.com and navigated to their book section.  Hmm, I thought, something's missing here.

Let me work backwards.  Here's what I saw after I had switched my user agent back to the default browser (by the way, all these screenshots were generated after I had cleared my cookies and stopped accepting them).

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I jumped onto Google Canada today to look up schedule information for the NHL playoffs (I don't usually use Google.ca, as the vast majority of my business relationships are US-facing).  Used a pretty likely query: nhl playoff shedule.  Here are the results.

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It's now been over two months since Google et al. announced support for <link rel="canonical">, so I thought I'd do a spot check to see who's using the new <link> tag attribute and who isn't.  As you'll see, so far the response has been, well, underwhelming.

SEO Industry

http://www.seo.com/
Not observed.

http://www.seochat.com/
Not observed.

http://www.seobook.com/
Not observed.
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