Thread: What is meant by canonical?

Hello Guys,

Please letme know why we using canonical links.

You find comprehensive details on Google Webmaster Help Forum and on following link:

www[.]seomoz[.]org/learn-seo/canonicalization

This clear all ambiguity about canonical links that can be arise in mind.

to declare to search engines the property of your content.

Read it for more informations

I have often heard this term being used, but I have never really ... Wikipedia points to the term Canonicalization. A process for converting data that ...

Canonical links help search engines resolve duplicate content problems by letting them know which of the web pages is the original or the best so they know which to give credit to. These links are also called 'preferred links'.

Canonical means our website is open without www so its a problem. if your site is open without www then is a big problem and your sit may be problem because google thing that your site contain duplicate contains.

It is a tag to tell the spiders which page is the main page or original content if you have duplicate content..

When a web page open with two or more url is called canonical

Hi Canonical tag is matter of using www and non www specification your sie.

Nice post Dude keep it up...

Canonical Links are those link which are adjacent to each other but Search Engines have to read it Separately! For Instance "www and non www" Your Site homepage have same URL but crawler finds two URLs one with www and second without www!! To overcome this issue you have to came up with 301 Root Redirect!

Conical Tags are Those tags which is placed in Meta to determine that your site have fresh and unique content!

Canonical is an adjective derived from canon. Canon comes from the greek word kanon, "rule" or "measuring stick" (perhaps originally from kanna "reed", cognate to cane), and is used in various meanings.

Canonicalization is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a “standard” canonical representation.


So, Canonical + URL (Uniform Resource Locator) = Duplicate Content = More supplemental results = less Google lovin’


Examples of Canonical URL’s are:


webbience.com/
www.webbience.com
webbience.com/index.html
www.webbience.com/index.html


And many more combinations!

So, how to clean my Canonical URL, so I get one URL representation only?


Well, you can edit your .htaccess file in the root of your site and add these lines if you want your site to use www:
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Then upload it.
That’s it.

No more extra ice cream, err! pesky duplicate content on your websites... lol

Canonical means reduced to its simplest form. In this context it means it allotment a reference to the actual same String object itself, which will be a reference to one of the internally pooled String objects.