What do you mean by Canonical Issues? How We can resolve?

[astrologerhome]

What do you mean by Canonical Issues? How We can resolve?

[erieki]

Any website run with or without www. For example if you type abc . com it will open on the browser, when you type www. abc . com also it will work. But technically both the url are different.

abc.com
www.abc.com

so Search engine feels like both have the same / duplicate content. Which is not good SEO point of view>

==> How to solve it

Canonicalization can be fixed by redirecting both to a single url. Either abc.com to www.abc.com.

This can be two different way, through .htaccess and through HTML url in the header file

[wellliving]

Canonical issues means your website have multiple duplicate URL. Canonical issues come from 301 redirect, when 301 redirect are not properly in place.

When a website several URL but content of all pages are same ie. called Canonical Issue in SEO.

For ex. A single URL contain more then 1 URL. If your website URL is http://http//www.abc.com and 301 redirect are not properly then your website contain several URL like http//www.abc.com/index.html but both pages content are same.

You can resolve the canonical issue with a permanent 301 redirect.

[fayeseom]

A canonical issue ariess 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.

You can solve canonical issue using .htaccess file.

See more: https://www.koozai.com/blog/search-marketing/how-to-resolve-the-canonical-issue-on-your-website-927/

[Jeffwilliams]

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.

The best and most effective way to resolve the canonical issue is with a permanent 301 redirect.

[leena13]

canonical issue means redirecting one page to another page like temporary to permanent url. for example non www version to www version.

[janpaul7890]

A canonical issue means that your website can be accessed by search engines from several different URLs. This means that search engines potentially index your site under different URLs, meaning is that it will look like a site of duplicated content.

[sinelogixweb]

Lets consider these 3 scenarios:
1. You are republishing an article on your website, which has been published already in another website earlier
2. You are having a site, where multiple URLs trigger the same piece of content. for example "abcsite(dot)com and abcsite(dot)com/index". Both pages are having the same content, but have different URLs
3. Lets say you have an e-commerce site where a category page is triggering the same content as another page.

In all these 3 cases, you are actually creating duplicate content.
Case 1 - You are copying content from another site. Thats plagiarism
Case 2 and Case 3 - You are having same content on multiple pages. As such the value of one page is getting split between all the duplicate pages.

This is called canonicalization. The best way to solve this:

Case 1 - <link rel="canonical" href="<original URL>" />
Case 2 and Case 3 - Use a 301 redirect to the main page.

This will ensure Google will not see your pages having duplicate content

[vinodkumar]

Thanks to everyone for their reply here. But have you experience canonical issue practically?