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Did you mean rel=shortlink vs. rel=shorturl?

15th October 2010

My answer to Did you mean rel=shortlink vs. rel=shorturl? on Quora

That was the cute trick in the initial proposal: it’s REV=canonical, not REL=canonical, suggesting a reverse relationship.

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