What is Canonical tag ?

[anishkasharma02]

What is Canonical tag ?

 

[chopraseo]

Code used by search engine crawlers/spiders to tell search engines what URL is the original version of your webpage.

 

[socialexperts]

canonical tag used for telling search engines that your two page are not consider as duplicate.
For example, www.yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com/index.php are same page.

 

[rallystone]

In SEO perspective, the canonical URL tag is similar to a 301 redirect. Simply as, you're telling the search engines that multiple pages should then be considered a-like or duplicate such for its content. Additionally, this canonical tag is inserted into the header of your HTML, and of course give link credit to the primary content.

 

[anishkasharma02]

Thanks guy for share your views.

 

[adriennerich]

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[jaysh4922]

Canonical is a value written in ‘rel’ field of the link tag. If search engines come across a webpage with canonical tag in it, they understand that it is the duplicate version.A URL is provided in the link tag which points to original version of the content.

 

[jobtardis92]

Canonical tag is used to normalize the multiple URLs in the site.

 

[Christina_Willi]

A rel canonical tag is a special tag that is inserted into the header of your HTML that helps communicate to search engine bots the relationship of that piece of content to others on your site. Canonical tags tell the search engine bots which pieces of content are the original or primary ones and which are duplicates.

 

[anuverma]

canonical tag used when we use multiple urls.

 

[PariJain]

The canonical tag is imple to use, all you need to do is add this tag to specify your preferred version of a URL inside the (head) section of the duplicate content URLs.

 

[itznehamali]

When you have two pages with same content and same information then you have to set one page as canonical .

 

[worldeyeglass]

A canonical tag specifies the source URL (or original content page) of a given page to a search engine such as Google. Canonical tags are used to declare a single page as its own source or for duplicate pages to reference their source / originating page.

 

[seobrainmine]

Hi,
A canonical tag specifies the original content page,
Means if you have a two links which have same content then you have to use canonical tag to specify the original content page.

 

[MrJohnny]

Another option for dealing with duplicate content is to utilize the rel=canonical tag. The rel=canonical tag passes the same amount of link juice (ranking power) as a 301 redirect, and often takes much less development time to implement.

 

[hemnaram]

To avoid the confusion of multiple url's targeting the same webpage canonical tags are used. It helps the google spider to decide which url is the actual url.

 

[adi123]

A canonical tag is a term which is used to differentiate between two pages on which the content is same.When search engine spiders/crawlers search your website and find two or more pages having the same content they send an information of duplicate content to search engine which makes a negative impact on your ranking.So to make sure that such pages are different webpages you have to make one page as source page of that particular content by using canonical tag.
This tag is added in rel part and you can make as many pages with such tags as you feel appropriate.

 

[eastman]

Thanks for providing the information...

 

[dombowkett]

Canonical tag is used to remove www & non-www issue from website.