What is Canonical URL?

[logo designer]

What is Canonical URL?

[dennis123]

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 ( example.com? dress=1234 and example.com/dresses/1234 ), Google chooses one as canonical.

[Neo_5678]

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page.

[dombowkett]

Canonical URL are in which a website works in www & non-www both format.

[jesica]

Canonical URL: A canonical URL is the URL of the page that Google thinks is most representative from a set of duplicate pages on your site.

[_sha]

As a website gets bigger, it’s often hard to prevent pages from becoming duplicates or near-duplicates of each other. This can cause duplicate content issues. If you have two similar pages, and they are both eligible to rank for a certain keyphrase, the search engine simply doesn’t know which of the two URLs it should send the traffic to. To solve this, you can select a preferred URL, this is what we call the canonical URL.