What is Canonical URL?

[michaeltim]

hi friends,

What is Canonical URL?

 

[kiruthi_18]

A Canonical URL allows you to tell search engines that assured similar URLs are principally one and the same. Sometimes you have products or content that is manageable under various URLs, or even on various websites.

Using a canonical URL (an HTML link tag with attribute rel=canonical) these can exist without injuring your Rankings.

 

[agustina]

Canonical URL is the URL that you need guests to see. Canonical URLs be present charity to define the homepage.

 

[yoshitha]

A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the unique copy of a page.
Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or duplicate content appearing on multiple URL s.

Basically, the canonical tag tells search engines which version of a URL you want to appear in Google search results.

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.


By applying a canonical tag:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.sitename.com” />

 

[Christiana Robert]

Canonical URL is an unique URL which is pointed from the copy URL through canonical tags.

 

[RH-Calvin]

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

 

[Stucorner]

Canonical URL is the URL which tells the search engine that the particular URL is the copy of home page.

 

[wilspat]

Canonical URL tells the search engine that the corresponding URL is the main URL. It avoid duplicate.