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Title: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: rohitjulal on June 18, 2019, 04:12:22 AM
What is Canonical Tag?
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: sohailkhan1 on June 18, 2019, 04:15:18 AM
A canonical tag  is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page.
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: zahra5253 on June 18, 2019, 06:35:09 AM
its just way to specify which is the master copy of the page
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: sarita670 on June 21, 2019, 01:44:41 AM
A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page. It is described in RFC 6596, which went live in April 2012.
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: riya_11 on June 21, 2019, 02:08:34 AM
A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page also know as duplicate URL
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: Raj on June 21, 2019, 07:42:43 AM
Duplicate content issues arise when you have similar pages. You can solve this by selecting a preferred URL, also known as the canonical .
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: HostechSupport on July 22, 2019, 07:36:11 AM
Canonical is a preferred URL for most of the search engines as they lift up your links & ranking signals for the content available through multiple URL's. Rel canonical url's also resolve duplicate content issues. Rel=canonical usually used, to sum up, it within the top portion of your HTML
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: Christiana Robert on July 25, 2019, 09:25:16 AM
Quote from: rohitjulal on June 18, 2019, 04:12:22 AM
What is Canonical Tag?

A canonical tag is the URL of the page that Google imagines is most representational from a set of duplicate pages on your website
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: RH-Calvin on July 26, 2019, 02:08:05 AM
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.
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: pranav1997 on July 30, 2019, 05:20:36 AM
A canonical tag specifies the source URL (or original content page) of a given page to a search engine such as Google.
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: naazaniqua on December 24, 2019, 04:31:15 AM
A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") is a way to tell search engines that a particular URL is the master copy of the page. Using the canonical tag to prevent problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content to appear on multiple URLs.
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: cityweb on February 15, 2020, 06:26:11 AM
A canonical tag tells search engines what page it should display in search results.We are  a global IT solutions company  provide full-cycle services in the areas of software development, web-based enterprise solutions, web application and portal development.
Title: Re: What is Canonical Tag?
Post by: sophiawils59 on February 22, 2020, 01:42:05 AM
A canonical tag (aka "rel canonical") 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.