What is Canonical URL?

[dennis123]

What is Canonical URL?

[mtgfanboy]

Canonical URL: 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.

[wiztech]

The rel=canonical element, often called the “canonical link”, is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues. It does this by specifying the “canonical URL”, the “preferred” version of a web page – the original source, even. Using it well improves a site’s SEO.

The idea is simple: if you have several similar versions of the same content, you pick one “canonical” version and point the search engines at it. This solves the duplicate content problem where search engines don’t know which version of the content to show in their results. This article takes you through how and when to use them, and how to avoid common mistakes.

[praveenitech40]

The rel=canonical element, often called the “canonical link”, is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues. It does this by specifying the “canonical URL”, the “preferred” version of a web page – the original source, even. Using it well improves a site’s SEO

[MVM Infotech]

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page.

[Jessicad0505]

A canonical URL is the one that informs Google and other search engines to crawl a website, and what URL to index that specific page content under.

[HosTechS]

Canonical is a preferred url for most search engines as they lift up your links & ranking signals for the content available through multiple URL’s. Rel canonical url’s also resolve duplicate content issues. Rel=canonical usually used to sum up it within the top portion of your HTML.

[RH-Calvin]

A canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.

[Anandkota]

This is the URL which is used to avoid duplicate content issues, It tells the search engine about the same content in different pages are not the duplicate, See how my website is using costoffliving Canonical URL.

[dombowkett]

Canonical URL is open in www & non www both format.

[imriakapoor]

What is Canonical URL?

A canonical URL lets you tell search engines that certain similar URLs are actually the same.

[wiztech]

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.

[Wiztechplc]

Canonical URL means it is a significant URL version of the website. Canonicalization URL represents the preferred URL of different versions of the similar pages which may be caused by copied content issues. Basically, it helps us to avoid copied content issues.

[Amitkumar]

What is Canonical URL?

canonical URLs can help to better inform search engines which URLs have identical or highly similar content.

[kanagaseo]

A canonical tag specifies the source URL (or original content page) of a given page to a search engine such as Google. Canonical tags are used to declare a single page as its own source or for duplicate pages to reference their source / originating page. Search Engines use the canonical tag to combat duplicate content issues and assign search engine ranking value for that content to the page designated as the “source” URL.