If you have a website and you wish to transfer it to a new domain,you would opt for Easy ways for site transfer from one domain to another. The usual procedure for this is to copy all the contents of the site and transfer them to the new domain.For this, you need to implement 301 redirect on the existing site to redirect the visitors and search engine bots to land on your new site when they try to access your old site.

However this works in most of the cases but there are some instances when there could be an issue with the 301 redirects when you do not have access to the hosting server of your old site. Blogger.com is a perfect example for this. In such cases redirecting could be troublesome.

Advantages of canonical tag:

For the above mentioned problem this may be a very good solution.Though this tag may not be as good as the 301 redirect for diverting the human visitors but its certainly useful for informing the search engine bots about the new location of your site. This is quite easy to do, you have to simple add <link rel=”canonical”href=”http://www.xxx.com/yyy.html”>. When next time the yyy.html is being crawled by the google it will consider this as a duplicate content and give priority to your new site.The actual function of the canonical tag is for specifying if there are pages in the site that have duplicate content. Now with the new changes this tag is a very great help for web publishers. This tag can be understood by Bing,Google and yahoo bots.