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What is Canonical URL? - sonyrobin - 04-04-2018

can anybody explain what is canonical URL in SEO?


Re: What is Canonical URL? - sinelogixtech - 04-04-2018

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.example.com">www.example.com</a><!-- w -->
example.com/
<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.example.com/index.html">www.example.com/index.html</a><!-- w -->
example.com/home.asp


Re: What is Canonical URL? - rachana - 04-05-2018

Canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. They are used to describe the homepage.


Re: What is Canonical URL? - DivyaShravani - 04-05-2018

A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.


Re: What is Canonical URL? - sinelogixtech - 04-06-2018

Canonical URL is the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative. In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.


Re: What is Canonical URL? - RH-Calvin - 04-09-2018

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.example.com">https://www.example.com</a><!-- m -->. Pick one of those URLs as your canonical URL and use 301 redirects to send traffic from the other URLs to your preferred URL. A server-side 301 redirect is the best way to ensure that users and search engines are directed to the correct page.


Re: What is Canonical URL? - aliceta - 04-10-2018

From an SEO point of view here is the definition of a canonical URL: Canonical URL: the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative. In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.


Re: What is Canonical URL? - clarac12 - 04-13-2018

Canonical URL is the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative. In other words, a canonical URL is a URL that you want visitors to see.

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Re: What is Canonical URL? - fayeseom - 05-09-2018

Canonical occurred when your two pages have the same content, but different URLs. That time Google confuse about which page gives priority. For that solution Google considers canonical tag.

Canonical tag tells to Google that which page gives priority to index.