What is Canonical URL?

[sunled]

What is Canonical URL?

[ajay teja]

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.

[Aachman]

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.

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Canonical URL is the duplicate URL that is treated by the Search Engines as a different URL and that causes a duplicacy problem in the website.
If you have a website abc.com and your website also accessible with the www.abc.com, then, there is the canonical URL issue. You can overcome this issue by using the 301 redirection into your .htacces file.

[exploroapp]

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.

[roycpo]

A canonical URL is a URL that website owners choose to have indexed by search engines.

[exploringseo]

A canonical URL, sometimes referred to as a "canonical tag," is an HTML attribute that tells search engines where to assign the search value, or "link juice," for pages with duplicate or very similar content.

[Shrithika]

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

[BritneyLamere]

A canonical URL is one that has been chosen, either by the Webmaster or by a default setting on their CMS to act as the main URL, utilizing 301 redirects on the other variables to automatically and permanently redirect to the canonical.

[ajay teja]

If you have a single page accessible by multiple URLs, or different pages with similar content (for example, a page with both a mobile and a desktop version), Google sees these as duplicate versions of the same page. Google will choose one URL as the canonical version and crawl that, and all other URLs...

[ramshu271]

canonical URL allows you to tell search engines that certain similar URLs are actually one and the same.