canonical tag

[orientation]

hii friends,

what is the use of canonical tag?

[RH-Calvin]

A canonical issue arises when 301 redirects are not properly in place. This means that your website can be accessed by search engines from several different URLs. This means that search engines can then potentially index your site under different URLs, meaning that it will look like a site of duplicated content.

[guptaabhijit318]

In information technology, canonicalization is the process of making something canonical that is, in conformance with some specification.

[veraajverma]

Canonical tag is used to remove the duplicacy issue. If your website accessed by google via different url and get same results then it is considered as duplicate content issue and google will treat each url as different. So to remove this issue we put the canonical tag on the duplicate page to tell the crawler that these are the copies of the original page and don't index them.

[deepakrajput]

Canonical tag, 301 redirect code help to remove canonical error from your site.

[nancy07]

A canonical tag specifies the source URL (or original content page) of a given page to a search engine such as Google. Canonical tags are used to declare a single page as its own source or for duplicate pages to reference their source / originating page. Search Engines use the canonical tag to combat duplicate content issues and assign search engine ranking value for that content to the page designated as the source URL.

[rashikasaxena]

Another option for dealing with duplicate content is to utilize the canonical tag the canonical tag passes the same amount of link juice as a 301 redirect and much take less developent time.

[Walteradams]

A canonical issue arises when 301 blows are not properly in place. Meaning that your website can be utilized by google from several different URLs. Meaning that google can then potentially index your website under different URLs, meaning that it will look like a website of copied content.

[marksteve741]

<link rel="canonical" href="" /> you can use this tag in the header.

[The Deal]

Canonicalization can be a challenging concept to understand (and hard to pronounce: "ca-non-ick-cull-eye-zay-shun"), but it's essential to creating an optimized website. The fundamental problems that canonicalization can fix stem from multiple uses for a single piece of writing–a paragraph or, more often, an entire page of content–that appears in multiple locations on one website or on multiple websites. For search engines, this presents a conundrum: Which version of this content should they show to searchers? SEOs refer to this issue as duplicate content

To provide the best user experience, search engines will rarely show multiple, duplicate pieces of content and thus, are forced to choose which version is most likely to be the original (or best).