What is Canonical URL?
 

Hlo Friends,
Can anyone tell me, What is Canonical URL?

A canonical URL is an authoritatively correct URL for a resource. Canonicalization is the process of selecting the best URL for your website.
For example:

www.example.com
example.com

Although these are URLs pointing to same home page, but all of these URLs are different. A web server sees these two unique URLs as two unique pages.To make sure the search engines are indexing the correct page, you need to select which variation of the URL you want to set as a canonical URL or canonicalized URL.

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.

Canonical URL is the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative. Canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Generally Canonical URL were used to describe homepage.

When we divert the www or non www form to one URL that is called standard canonical url. Different words the Search engine cordial url that you need the web crawlers to regard as definitive.

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

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

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

It is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues. It does this by specifying the “canonical URL”, the “preferred” version of a web page. Using it well improves a site's SEO.

Canonical tag is the html tag which is use to reduce the duplicate content or page. By using canonical tag we tell search engines which page is original and on which page search engine has to give preference. Canonical tag used as

it is an technique in which one can make google understand your sites url in various forms

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

A canonical tag specifies the source URL (or original content page) of a given page to a search engine such as Google.

the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative.

The rel=canonical element, often called the “canonical link”, is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues. It does this by specifying the “canonical URL”, the “preferred” version of a web page. Using it well improves a site's SEO.