Does rel="canonical" make it safe to use tracking parameters?

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On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Nick from Chicago asked:

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



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