What is a canonical url?

In other terms, a canonical URL is the URL that you want guests see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to explain the home-page. The common example used is that most individuals cure the following URLs as the same: www.example.com. example.com.

Canonical URL is that URL which you want to appear on your web page for visitors.

A canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.

A canned URL is your favorite URL. URLs can have multiple variables, and as such, to avoid problems like duplicate content, Google requires webmasters to choose one of them to use. Let's take a look at our home page and see what variables are available:

A canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.

Canonical URLs relate to the concept of choosing the best URL for the web pages that the visitors want to see. Also, recognized as canonical tags, these URLs help in content syndication when several versions of a similar page become available over the Internet. Therefore, it is used to resolve issues associated to content duplication.

A canonical URL is a your preferred URL. Still not making sense? We understand, so let us explain. URLs can have multiple variables and as such, to avoid issues like duplicate content, Google asks that the webmaster chooses one to use.

Google can also automatically canonicalise a URL but you do not appear to have any control over which one they choose, they just try to choose the right one. For example, if you entered www.weareyellowball.com into your web browser it would automatically redirect to your canonical URL which is weareyellowball.com.
Canonical URls usually refer to the homepage and is also known as the canonical domain although you want to make sure that you set a preferred domain so that you do not have all of these variables occurring for each one of your web pages.

Canonicalization is the process to choose url from several choices which refers to home page. For example, consider following urls

1) http://www.example.com

2) http://example.com

3) http://example.com/index.html

4) http://example.com/home.asp.

These All are the same urls but crawler consider this differently. the "canonical tag " is used to tell crawler that specific url is original copy of website. Add given markup to the original url. <link rel="canonical" href="original url">.

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 a canonical URL is a URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.

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 the same page become available over the Internet. Thus, it is used to resolve
issues related to content duplication.