What is Canonical URL?

[Cole001]

Hello,

What is Canonical URL? How can i do it.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Regards,
Cole

[watson123]

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.

[sabrinasai]

Canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage. The typical example used is that most people treat the following URLs as the same:

www.example.com
example.com
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp

The fact is that these are all different URLs. From a search engine perspective, this can cause a bit of an issue. Hence the idea of canonicalization. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL (to present to the search engines) when there are multiple choices available. Typically a search engine, such as Google will attempt to pick the best URL that they feel is the authority for that page.

[Steve Michael]

In URL normalization process the URL's are modified and standardised in a consistent manner. the URL obtained through such a process is known as Canonical URL.

[AllenSantiago]

Canonical issue refers the multiple forms to access a website or a web page. A website must be accessed through unique and single form of the URL so that the search engine can index its easily with its unique web address.

[katherineeobrya]

Canonical URL’s have been a much neglected aspect of in page SEO for quite some time now, but webmasters are now realizing that this small attribute can actually jeopardize their entire SEO campaign to ashes.

[Labexpress]

When two or more url pointed to same web page like abc.com and abc.com/home is refers to canonical error.301 redirection is permanent solution for problem.

[jackm]

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.

[ChrisDevlin]

Hello,

What is Canonical URL? How can i do it.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Regards,
Cole

Redirecting one URL to another its said to be Canonicalization. You can learn more about URL Canonicalization in this blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/.

[JohnRosatti]

To fix all version of your website on one url is known as canonical url.You can fix it through ht access file.