What is a canonical url?
 

What is a canonical url?

which is very useful for your website SEO,because canonical url indicate's your site is checked there is no duplicate content.

Canonical tag is used to tell Google that the content used in the page is duplicate content and is being copied from the other web page. In order to avoid getting website penalized from Google algorithm it's important to mention Canonical tag.

For example:- If content of page A is copied in B. Then in page B mention canonical tag and give reference of page A.

canonical is used to prevent penalties by google for duplicate content. Canonical tag show to google that which one is your master page whether your single page is open my multipal url.

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. The typical example used is that most people treat the following URLs as the same: www.example.com. example.com

A site opening in www & non www both format is canonical Error.

A canonical URL is the search engine-friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as the most authoritative URL for that web page content. It is also the URL you want people to see in the search results.

A canonical URL is the search engine-friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as the most authoritative URL for that web page content. It is also the URL you want people to see in the search results.

hi,
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. The typical example used is that most people treat the following URLs as the same:

www.example.com
example.com
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp

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A canonical URL is the search engine-friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as the most authoritative URL for that web page content. It is also the URL you want people to see in the search results.

Some very different answers here.

Canonical URL, Canonical Error and Canonical Tag .

These all are different. I read all answers above and found people are very confused about this. Please be clear and specific what you want to say and what has been asked here.

Canonical URL is the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative (i.e) the URL that you want visitors to see.

A canonical link part is AN hypertext markup language part that helps webmasters forestall duplicate content problems by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of an online page as a part of program optimization.

The canonical tag is an important tag used in SEO optimization to avoid possible content duplication between two pages published with content similarity. If the same content portion is published with more than 1 URL it may cause content duplication. To avoid the problems of content duplication canonical tags are used.