What is Canonical tag?

[naveenkumar47]

Can anybody tell me about Canonical tag?

[jayanta1]

Canonical Tag is used to deal with Duplicate Content. The canonical tag is a tag used to tell search engines which version of a page is the desired or preferred version.

[Teamwork]

i know about canonical issue . url is different and page is same that is called canonical issue.

[naveenkumar47]

thanx for giving the good information.

[singhabhishek25]

<link rel="canonical" href="http://blog.example.com/dresses/green-dresses-are-awesome" /> this is the format of canonical tag and it could be placed in headers to determine the accurate page for the same to get rid of duplicate issues.

[naveenkumar47]

<link rel="canonical" href="http://blog.example.com/dresses/green-dresses-are-awesome" /> this is the format of canonical tag and it could be placed in headers to determine the accurate page for the same to get rid of duplicate issues.

great example thanx

[davidweb09]

When We have error in our website open in both as with http://www. & without http:// format. This is called canonical issue. So to tell the search engine about our real website(to escape from penalties) we add it in header of our website code.

[Rajiv_UDB]

canonical tag is the one when you want 2 URLs in your website with same thing on both the pages.