What is a canonical URL tag and what is it used for?

[Dynapro]

What is a canonical URL tag and what is it used for?

[Maria Jonas]

A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page.

[dennis123]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.

[swaroop97]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.

[RSM_Recruitment]

Hello,

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.

[swaroop23]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.

[jayam]

A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.

[jayammrg]

A canonical URL is the URL of the page that Google thinks is most representative from a set of duplicate pages on your site. For example, if you have URLs for the same page (for example: example.com? dress=1234 and example.com/dresses/1234 ), Google chooses one as canonical.

[chandrao7]

The canonical tag is a page-level meta tag that is placed in the HTML header of a webpage. It tells the search engines which URL is the canonical version of the page being displayed

[sophiawils59]

The canonical tag is used to tell the search engines what URL you want them to index if there are multiple URLs with the same content. If each URL containing duplicate content has a canonical tag pointing to the URL you want to be indexed and ranked.