What is Canonical URL?

[jenerous]

Hai,.Can you explain what is Canonical URL?

 

[auraiyaitsolutions]

Website opening in www & non www both version is canonical issue in the site.

 

[maxsmith]

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.

 

[richrich]

Canonical URL is a type of URL that site administrators want search engines
Canonical URL will be very beneficial when you use to prevent duplicate content in the website, but if you use the wrong Canonical will also lead to great consequences.

 

[Raman]

Canonical URLs relate to the concept of selecting the best URL for the web pages that the visitors want to see. Also, known as canonical tags, these URLs help in content syndication when multiple versions of a same page become available over the Internet. Thus, it is used to resolve issues related to content duplication.

 

[chiragpatel108]

A canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see website start URL with WWW or Without WWW.

 

[sharmaroshni]

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.