Official Google answer: Does the new canonicalization tag make it safe to add tracking arguments to some of my internal links without fear that Google will split the quality signals between the two addresses?

Question:

Does the new canonicalization tag make it safe to add tracking arguments to some of my internal links without fear that Google will split the quality signals between the two addresses?

Google's Matt Cutts answers:

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Question

Views

Google is showing breadcrumb URLs in SERPs now. Does the delimiter matter?

802

When I do a Google search for my business name, Google suggests "did you mean:" with some other company name. Is there anything we can do to keep that from happening?

660

Uncrawled URLs in search results

1,106

If I use Google Analytics to track conversions on my ecommerce website, would that have a negative effect in Google SERP?

916

In regards to the new canonicalization tag, does it make sense for large corporations to consider placing that tag on every page due to marketing tracking codes and large levels of duplicate URLs like faceted pages and load balancing servers?

953