What is a canonical url?

[michaelclarke]

What is a canonical url please describe me.

[SophiaJon11]

When your url open without www, that is called canonical issue, this is very bad for SEO.

[Mark Thompson]

hether you’re familiar with the phrase “Canonical URL” or if you’ve never heard it before, it’s essential everyone on your team understands its importance and the role it plays in the optimization of a website. If you’re not familiar with the term, simply put, a canonical URL is the authoritatively correct URL for a resource.

[brknny]

The Canonical URL tag attribute is similar in many ways to a 301 redirect from an SEO perspective. In essence, you're telling the engines that multiple pages should be considered as one, without actually redirecting visitors to the new URL

[ragulaussie]

Canonical URL: the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative

[anirban09P]

A canonical URL, sometimes referred to as a "canonical tag," is an HTML attribute that tells search engines where to assign the search value, or "link juice," for pages with duplicate or very similar content. Online stores often use canonical tags for product pages, which is crucial for retaining full search value.

[wellliving]

Canonical URL is an easy way to handle duplicate contents. If you have same page in different URL's you can specify canonical url in code, so Google knows the original page.

[geetanjalijosi]

What is a canonical url please describe me.

Its not canonical url but canonical tag, it is used in case of duplicate content. If you have similar webpage i.e. www.example.com and example.com. Both are similar pages but crawler will count them different page. So we put canonical tag in one page to tell crawler that this is our primary webpage.

[seomarqetrix]

If your website pages similar and duplicate content of two pages and also might go to the exact same product page. Since two URLs are being used and the page content is the same for both of them, Google thinks you have two pages with duplicate content. So you can use this canonical URLs are used to prevent this.

[fishpawnbroker]

Canonical URL defined as the preferred URL for the page content to be indexed in the major search engines.

[stuartspindlo]

If we have 2 URL of same services, Google confused that which page has to be index and they count this page as duplicate. To solve this problem we need to add canonical parameter.

[ajay49560]

For example, http://mydomain.com/shirt.html and http://mydomain.com/apparel/shirt.html might go to the exact same product page. Since two URLs are being used and the page content is the same for both of them, Google thinks you have two pages with duplicate content. Canonical URLs are used to prevent this.