A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the unique copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or*****duplicate*****content appearing on multiple URL s. Basically, the canonical tag tells search engines which version of a URL you want to appear in Google search results.
Doe’s it matter in websites google ranking?
Duplicate content is a complicated subject, but when search engines crawl many URL s with identical or similar content, it can cause a number of SEO problems. First of all, if search crawlers/robots have to wade through too much duplicate content, they may miss some of your unique content. Second, large-scale duplication may reduce your ranking ability. Finally, even if your content does rank, search engines may pick the wrong URL as the*****original. Using canonicalization helps you control your duplicate content.
The problems with URL s in 2018
You might be thinking that canonicalization nothing that you have to worry about. The problem is that humans, tend to understand a page as a concept, such as your homepage & For search engines, every unique URL is a separate page.
For a human, all of these URL s represent a single page. To a search crawler/ Robots, every single one of these URL s is a unique*****page. Even in this example, we can see there are 4 copies of the homepage. In reality, though, this is just a small sample
of the variations you might encounter.
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01-03-2019, 04:27 AM #16Registered User
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canonical URL allows you to tell search engines that certain similar URLs are actually one and the same.
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A canonical URL refers to an HTML link element, with the attribute of rel="canonical", found in the <head> element of your webpage. It specifies to search engines your preferred URL. What that means is that the canonical URL element informs Google and other search engines to crawl a website, and what URL to index that specific page content under.
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An accepted tag (otherwise known as "rel authoritative") is a method for telling web crawlers that an explicit URL speaks to the ace duplicate of a page. Utilizing the authoritative tag anticipates issues caused by indistinguishable or "copy" content showing up on various URLs.
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Canonical URL issue occurred when the same website accessible from different URLs.
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01-08-2019, 04:14 AM #21Registered User
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Canonical URL: the search engine friendly URL which you want the serps to treat as authoritative. In other words, a canonical URL is a URL that you want traffic to look. Quite regularly canonical URLs have been used to explain the homepage.
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Greatfull Answer.
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A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the unique copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or duplicate content appearing on multiple URL s. Basically, the canonical tag tells search engines which version of a URL you want to appear in Google search results.
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Canonical URL is one of the SEO technique called On-Page activities. A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. It prevent duplication of content causing on multiple URLs. In short, two URLs is created for same page and it is the best to inform search engine that which is the right URL and which one is duplicate.
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When 2 or more than Web pages have the same Content, It will called "Duplicate Content" issues. Canonical URL is used to solve the duplicate content issues.
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Individual web page can be loaded from multiple URL's. Multiple pages have same content but different URL's. At that time google confused which is the genuine url, that's the reason resolve canonical issue.
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Canonical URL: the search engine well disposed URL that you need the web indexes to treat as legitimate. At the end of the day, a standard URL is the URL that you need guests to see.
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Canonical URL can help to better inform search engines which URL have duplicate content.
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A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the unique copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or duplicate content appearing on multiple URL s. Basically, the canonical tag tells search engines which version of a URL you want to appear in Google search results.
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This is a very nice one and gives in-depth information. I am really happy with the quality and presentation of the article. I’d really like to appreciate the efforts you get with writing this post. Thanks for sharing.
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