What is Canonical URL?

[stuartkspindlow]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is canonical URL.

[priya01]

Canonical URL defined as the preferred URL for the page content to be indexed in the Major Search Engines. Canonical URL is used by the Major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

[StelaBrown]

Canonicalization is the process of converting data that involves more than one representation into a standard approved format. Such a conversion ensures that data conforms to canonical rules. This compares different representations to assure equivalence, to count numbers of distinct data structures, to impose a meaningful sorting order and to improve algorithm efficiency, thus eliminating repeated calculations.

[Jessica1501111]

Canonical URL is page content URL that is to be indexed in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc

[robertclark1]

In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.

[stuartspindlow0]

A canonical URL is a your preferred URL.

[RH-Calvin]

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.

[jaysh4922]

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. You can do the same with 301 redirect, but here page will not need to redirect.

[fayeseom]

Canonical means if your website open in both with nor www. or www. then canonical issues is used for the redirection to make it has single website for the redirection 301 will be used.

[BrilltechEngg]

In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often 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.

Cable Tray Manufacturers (http://www.cabletraymanufacturers.in) | Ladder Cable Tray Manufacturers (http://www.cabletraymanufacturers.in/ladder-cable-tray.html)

[ragulaussie]

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages.

[TinaLewis]

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url to handle duplicate contents.
The rel=canonical element, often called the “canonical link”, is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues. It does this by specifying the “canonical”, or “preferred”, version of a web page. Using it well improves a site's SEO.

[webdesign123]

In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often 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

[Sonika11Mehra]

Canonical URLs is one of the features that I worked on for WordPress 2.3 It’s sort of a geeky concept, but the end result has benefits that a non-geek can appreciate, so I’m going to break it down for you.

[marksteve741]

canonical is major issue. you should resolve the from your website for better ranking

[pixelw3]

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:

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

But technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a url, Google try to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set.

[Shay_Fox]

A Canonical URL is the URL that you need guests to see. Frequently Canonical URLs were utilized to portray the landing page. The normal illustration utilized is that a great many people regard the accompanying URLs as the same:

[johnseward]

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.

[nouman]

This article describes how you can use canonical URLs to improve link and ranking signals for content available through multiple URL structures or via syndication.

In the world of content management and online shopping systems, it's common for the same content to be accessed through multiple URLs. With content syndication, it's also easy for content to be distributed to different URLs and domains entirely. For example:

[BenWood]

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.

[Bluesky94]

Canonicalization is the process of converting data that involves more than one representation into a standard approved format. Such a conversion ensures that data conforms to canonical rules.