Take the 2-minute tour ×  One of the issues with duplicate
content is that links can be split across several versions of
your page, it was my understanding the a 301 redirect is really
the only option for retaining some of the link juice, however,
looking at some answers here and on other forums it looks like
some people believe the canonical tag will have the same effect
as a 301 (in the search engines eyes).  Does the canonical tag
tell the search engines that the links pointing to duplicate
pages should count for the original or does it simply tell them
which version of the page you want indexed?  share|improve this
question add comment  1 Answer  up vote 2 down vote accepted  It
just fixes duplicate content issues by telling the search
engines which page is the "main page" that they should list in
their index. It's not an actual link and thus does not pass PR.
Quoted from the link below. I either missed or forgot that part
since I read that blog post. Based on that sentence I would say
the "main" canoni