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Ryan - I appreciate your help. My initial thought too was that I could remove it to clean up the code. However, I was unaware that the tag helps with dynamically generated pages - which ours are.

Thank you for your thorough response.

For some reason every webpage of our website (www.nathosp.com)  has a rel=canonical tag. I'm not sure why the previous SEO manager did this, but we don't have any duplicate content that would require a canonical tag.

Should I remove these tags? And if so, what's the advantage - or disadvantage of leaving them in place?

Thank you in advance for your help.

-Josh Fulfer

Thanks Steve, very much appreciated.

I used Open Site Explorer and found a link to our site on http://www.business.com/guides/bedding-supplies-3639/  The link was setup to go to an important, deep page on my website, but the structure of our urls changed and the url no longer exists. The link (anchor text 'National Hospitality Supply') does direct to our homepage, www.nathosp.com.

My question is, am I receiving full link juice? Or would I be better served to create a 301 redirect to the revised / new page url? In case it matters, if I had my choice I'd prefer the link to go to the intended deep page.

Thanks in advance for your insight.

-Josh Fulfer

Thanks Steve, very much appreciated.

For some reason every webpage of our website (www.nathosp.com)  has a rel=canonical tag. I'm not sure why the previous SEO manager did this, but we don't have any duplicate content that would require a canonical tag.

Should I remove these tags? And if so, what's the advantage - or disadvantage of leaving them in place?

Thank you in advance for your help.

-Josh Fulfer