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For those wishing to improve your SEO, here's a tested simple solution that works on any type of Adobe Business Catalyst page: web pages, catalogues, booking events, web apps, etc.

I've tested on several large BC sites on all types of pages and this solution correctly renders Canonical Links so Google will always know to index your site as www.yourdomain.com instead of as yourdomain.businesscatalyst.com or yourdomain.worldsecuresystems.com.

For info on how Canonical Links tell Google how to index your site correctly, see Google's Info and Video.

Just add the following to the end of your HEAD section atop your various Business Catalyst site templates:

<link rel="canonical" />
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
	// for Google search optimization this coverts *.businesscatalyst.com and https://*.worldsecuresystems.com domains to real domain
	// replace your-domain-name.com with your own domain in this code
	var theurl='http://www.your-domain-name.com'+window.location.pathname+window.location.search;
	jQuery("link[rel=canonical]").attr("href",theurl);
	});
</script>

How this works

When a user goes to http://somesite.businesscatalyst.com/somepage.htm when when the page loads, the script replaces the link rel="canonical" with link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/somepage.htm". That command appearing in your HEAD tells Google to not index the page on the somesite.business.catalyst.com domain but rather only on the yourdomain.com. Neat!

You can move the script into your .js file if you have other code on your site loading from one file. Of course, you do need to leave the <link rel="canonical" /> in the HEAD section of your template so the script can modify it.

Of course, for this script to work your site must have jQuery loaded. See Loading jQuery.

If you wish to inspect your pages to see how it's working, you need to inspect them with Firebug in Firefox or Developer Tools in IE because the link is modified in DOM; you won't see it inspecting the Page Source.

You can see this in action of some of my sites like http://www.murphys-atlanta-restaurant.com

Visit murphys.worldsecuresystems.com or murphys.businesscatalyst.com and using Firebug you'll see the <link rel="canonical" /> in the head is telling search engines to index the site as http://www.murphys-atlanta-restaurant.com

To see an e-commerce store example, inspect kudzu.businesscatalyst.com and in Firebug you'll see the canonical lnk is http://www.kudzuantiques.com. Go to product pages and you'll see it works fine in the e-commerce layouts.