Different Between Canonical and 301 redirect?

[Joylinford]

What is the Different Between Canonical and 301 redirect?

[RH-Calvin]

301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It's not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".

[ShreyaKoushik]

301 redirect - When you use 301 redirect, you show to Google that current page it's permanently moved to another url.

Canonical - Canonical is used to prevent penalties by Google for duplicate content. When you use it, the current page exists but shows to google that is "copy" of another "master page"

[deepakrajput]

301 redirect code is best way to move your site from one domain to other.

[nancy07]

A 301 Redirect that redirects users and the search engines to a particular page. A 301 Redirect can be employed if the content of a page has been permanently moved.
The canonical tag is a Meta tag placed in the HTML header of a webpage. It's main purpose is to keep duplicated content out of the search engine index while consolidating a sites authority and PageRank into one URL.

[marksteve741]

canonical and 301 redirection both are same

[The Deal]

Though there are a few gray areas, Google provides some clear guidelines to make sure we all know how they want us to manage redirections. In very simple terms, here is what each communicates to Google and search engines:

301 – Hey, Search Engines: My page is no longer here, and has permanently moved to a new page. Please remove it from your index and pass credit to the new page.

Canonical – Hey, (most) Search Engines: I have multiple versions of this page (or content), please only index this version. I’ll keep the others available for people to see, but don’t include them in your index and please pass credit to my preferred page.

[anirban09P]

301 Redirect is best for website redirect purpose. canonical tags use for duplicate content issue.

[Joylinford]

Thanks for your comments.

[chriselviss]

When you use 301 redirect, you show to Search Engine that current page is permanently moved to another location.

Cannonical is used to prevent penalties by Search Engine for duplicate content. When you use it, the current page exists but shows to Search Engine that is "copy" of another "master page" . From the following example you will get a clear idea about this.

http://example.com/demo-1.html

http://example.com/category-1/demo-1.html

http://example.com/category-1/subcategory-1/demo-1.html

The above 3 url are same and exact content. Normaly Search Engines doesn't like the duplicate content and give penalties too. So in this case you should put in every single page a rel canonical tag to the "master" page. For example we will chose "http://example.com/category-1/subcategory-1/demo-1.html".

<link rel="canonical"
href="http://example.com/category-1/subcategory-1/demo-1.html">

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[Angeljoe]

301 redirect, you show to Google that current page it's permanently moved to another url

Canonical Redirect old url into new url

[davidwarner033]

So many programmers are suffered from this problem. Here 301 redirect and Cannonical redirect two are different things
301 Redirect stands for only the search engine that current page it's permanently moved to another URL.

Canonical Redirect used for prevent penalties by Google for duplicate content.

[Jennifer Martin]

What is the Different Between Canonical and 301 redirect?

301 redirect refers to the permanent redirection of the URL. For example:- User will be redirected to page B, if he lands to Page A from any source where it was submitted.

Whereas, Canonicalization refers to telling Google the content of the page is being copied from other website. Each and every page can be self canonicalized as well.