What is Canonical URL?

[brandmedia]

What is Canonical URL?

[Neo_5678]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page

[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.

[Ravina97]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a method of telling search engines that a particular url represents the master of a page.
Using the canonical tag prevents issues caused by identical or "duplicate" content showing on multiple URLs.

[BMilitaryFit]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a method of telling search engines that a particular url represents the master of a page.
Using the canonical tag prevents issues caused by identical or "duplicate" content showing on multiple URLs.

Hi Ravina
The question is about Canonical URL, not Canonical Tag. Or, both Canonical Tag and Canonical URLs are Same?

[nilpotter]

What is Canonical URL?

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content.

[Saravanan28]

A canonical URL allows you to tell search engines that certain similar URLs are actually one and the same.

[Mark Alfred]

Canonical URL is used to avoid the duplication issue. You can use it in the head section to tell web robots the exact URL from the same multiple URLs.