Using canonical feature to pass ranking credits to original page.

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Shirish Deshpande: Creating replications of pages on purpose with different titles. But using canonical feature to pass ranking credits to original page. Is this valid practice?
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  Joseph Paulino: +Shirish Deshpande ;Those pages won't be seen as duplicates. That's the power of rel=canonical. Canonicalization is for preventing the theft of your original content and/or for helping search engines decide which page you want indexed when, for example, your CMS software is causing duplicates.  ;Why would you purposely replicate your pages?
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  Federico Sasso: I guess you are aiming to target multiple target [edit: keywords] with the different titles.
  My understanding is the content of the non-canonical copies would be ignored - at least after the canonical URL is crawled and indexed - but we should set up an experiment to prove it.
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  Simon Fryer: I'm with +Federico Sasso ;. Honestly I wouldn't call this a valid practice though. Canonicals should be used to deal with unavoidable duplicate content, in which case the duplicates should be ignored by SE's and won't add any value to what you're trying to achieve. ;