What is Canonical URL?

[Edtech]

What is Canonical URL? Please Explanations it.

[David910]

Canonical URL: 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.

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

[fayeseom]

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. example.com.

[kunalkumar]

In simple terms, Canonicalization is the process of choosing the best URL when there are several options.

[samant]

It avoid duplicate URL

[airventsindia]

Canonical URL is new standard adopted by Google, Yahoo and MSN, that can help to avoid unwanted duplicated content problem.

Code is based on meta tags module, with lot of things removed.

Module operates in 2 modes: automatic and manual ('Automatic mode' checkbox in settings page).
In manual mode, canonical url is switched off by default, and is shown only for nodes with canonical url

[veraajverma]

Canonical url is placed with the help of canonical tag on webpages having duplicate webpage issues. With the help of canonical tag you can add the url on duplicate pages to tell google bots that those are not the original pages and don't give them value for ranking on SERP.

Example ; <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/" />

[alliecandy]

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

[EvelynSamuel]

Canonical URL is new standard adopted by Google, Yahoo and MSN, that can help to avoid unwanted duplicated content problem.

[Achaladya]

A Canonical URL is the URL that you need guests to see. Regularly standard URLs were utilized to depict the landing page. The average case utilized is that a great many people regard the accompanying URLs as the same: www.example.com. example.com.

[leena13]

Redirecting temporary URL to permanent URL.

[24x7servermanag]

A canonical URL is used to avoid the duplicate web content issue. It will improve the site SEO. Those are used to describe the home page. Visitors used to see the canonical URL.

If you've already added canonical tags then no need to add 301 redirect. canonical tags are more appropriate than 301 redirect. This is the best practice so you can keep them, no need to add 301 redirect.

[Sojan Babu]

In SEO, canonical tags or canonical URLs are used to avoid possible content duplication problems caused due to publishing a similar content copy in different URLs.

[zphotography]

Canonical URL: 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.

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

[efusionworld]

Canonical URL is the URL that you want people to see. Relatively often canonical URLs were used to call the homepage.

[jaysh4922]

Canonical Urls are on the page and define which url the page should be indexed as. This is used when you have one or more url parameters that might resolve that same content.

[oneyestech]

Rel canonical is a tag in the header of your HMTL that tells search engines which piece of content is the original and which one is a duplicate.

There are multiple situations where canonical should be used for duplicate content:

Multiple URLs: e-commerce websites which offer filter options like prices, sizes, colors, categories have a lot of URLs with duplicate content

HTTP, HTTPS, WWW: a search engine can see http://www.mywebsite.com, https://mywebsite.com and https://www.mywebsite.com as different websites and will index them as such

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