What is Canonical URL

[ruhikhan]

hello friends,


What is Canonical URL?

[24x7servermanag]

A canonical URL is used to avoid the duplicate web content issue. It will improve the site SEO. Those are used to describe the home page. Visitors used to see the canonical URL.

If you've already added canonical tags then no need to add 301 redirect. canonical tags are more appropriate than 301 redirect. This is the best practice so you can keep them, no need to add 301 redirect.

[DanielDP]

Canonical URL is a tag used to prevent duplicate content between two different URLs, but with the same content. For example : there are two urls :
http://A.com
http://www.A.com
Canonical tag will tell which one is the copy of which

[pavani25]

A canonical URL is used to avoid the duplicate web content issue. It will improve the site SEO. Those are used to describe the home page. Visitors used to see the canonical URL.

If you've already added canonical tags then no need to add 301 redirect. canonical tags are more appropriate than 301 redirect. This is the best practice so you can keep them, no need to add 301 redirect.

I agree with this answer and i suggest to use WordPress for web design so that it will have better seo plugins to create dynamic canonical link and other seo friendly features like robots, sitemaps etc.,

[gemselections]

Canonical URLs relate to the concept of selecting the best URL for the web pages that the visitors want to see. Also, known as canonical tags, these URLs help in content syndication when multiple versions of a same page become available over the Internet. Thus, it is used to resolve issues related to content duplication.

[EdSim]

A canonical URL allows you to tell search engines that certain similar URLs are actually one and the same. Sometimes you have products or content that is accessible under multiple URLs, or even on multiple websites. Using a canonical URL (an HTML link tag with attribute rel=canonical) these can exist without harming your rankings.

[sadianisar]

Canonical url in SEO is used to prevent the duplicate content issue.

[mansi]

canonical tag is used to avoid the duplicate page issue. Mainly used to intimate search engine not to consider specific page as a duplicate page.

[SerenMckay]

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.

[ropoint]

Thanks for sharing useful information...

[Deepak5]

The search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative.

[davidweb09]

When a website open in both www & non www format, known as canonical URL.

[davidsmith21]

From an SEO side of the point from claiming see here is those definition of a accepted URL: accepted URL: those web index inviting url that you have any desire the quest engines should treat Similarly as legitimate. Previously, different words, An accepted url will be those url that you have any desire guests to view. Truly often accepted URLs were used to portray those homepage.

[jaysh4922]

Canonical Urls are on the page and define which url the page should be indexed as. This is used when you have one or more url parameters that might resolve that same content.