What is canonical tag?

[bangalorewebguru]

What is canonical tag?

[jackar56]

A Canonical tag which is used for declaring single web page defines as own source pages or corresponding pages for their source pages.In SEO,it is used to resist duplicate content and assigned to the search engine ranking value that relevant the content of web pages.

[fayeseom]

Canonical tagging is nothing but adding a HTML element is to the section of an html page. This helps Google to identify duplicate content by specifying word "Canonical", Google will identify what is preferred version (URL) of the page. It is supported by Yahoo & Bing as-well

[saketbhai]

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[Jeffscott]

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[RH-Calvin]

A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs. Practically speaking, the canonical tag tells search engines which version of a URL you want to appear in search results.

[alexandradarex]

What is canonical tag?

The rel=canonical part, repeatedly called the "canonical link", is an HTML element that assistances webmasters avoid duplicate content problems. It prepares this by identifying the "canonical URL", the "preferred" variety of a web page. By it fit increases a site's SEO.

You strength have gotten a website serving similar page or content with many dissimilar URLs (Mostly homepage) www.example.com, example.com, & https://example.com, which is replacement giving to google. To avoid website from duplicate content/page we usage canonical tag.

[santhoshsocial]

Additional option for dealing with duplicate content is to utilize the rel=canonical tag. The rel=canonical tag passes the similar amount of link juice (ranking power) as a 301 redirect, and frequently takes much less development while to implement. The tag is part of the HTML head of a web page.

[albertc99]

Canonical tag specifies the URL source to a given pages to a search engine.

[DanielDP]

Let's say you have two URL of a site :
htttp://A.com
http://www.A.com
Both pages display the same content and no page redirects to any page, this can lead to duplicate content on google, you can be fined. Then you have to use the canonical tag, let the search engine know which URL is the original, the URL is the copy helps you avoid fines for duplicate content

[praveenitech1]

A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page

[salenaadam]

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 page.

[sandy mary]

Canonical URL is the original URL which is pointed from the duplicate url via canonical tags.