What is Canonical link ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dmcseo, Dec 19, 2011.

  1. rosesmark

    rosesmark Active Member

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  2. cutesathya

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    The importance of the canonical link is to give Google a clean representation and suggestion of what you want your URLs to look like and how you want Google to index and display them in search results and also it helps search engines figure out duplicate content issues.
     
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  3. Mithuasha

    Mithuasha Banned

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    Canonical links are also known as “preferred links”. When search engines have to deal with duplicate content, they have to choose which link should be favored over all others that contain identical page content.
     
    Mithuasha, Dec 21, 2011 IP
  4. chandandas.me

    chandandas.me Greenhorn

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    I am glad it helped. Thank you. First you have to create a .htaccess file using a text editor like notepad. Content of the .htaccess file would be the following.

    # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.
    #Options +FollowSymLinks
    Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainname\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html
    RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.yourdomainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]


    Replace yourdomainname with your domain name. And the index.html has to be replaced with the default page name of your web site. save it and upload it to the root directory of your web server via FTP. Filezilla works fine.
    This will redirect all your homepage urls to the www version of your canonical url. If you are scared to do it, I will help you do it. Just let me know if I can be of any help. Thanks again.
     
    chandandas.me, Dec 23, 2011 IP
  5. Anuragbagadi

    Anuragbagadi Member

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    if you add or publish your url without www so it's effective for you page rank. Canonical url is call to google that this is the my display url.


    cheers
     
    Anuragbagadi, Dec 23, 2011 IP
  6. rosy

    rosy Peon

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    #26
    within head tag write <link rel="canonical" href="www.site.com" /> this will avoid the duplication issue.
     
    rosy, Dec 23, 2011 IP
  7. chandandas.me

    chandandas.me Greenhorn

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    #27
    Your conception on canonical url is not correct. Can you explain why non www version is better and effective for page rank? So it's better don't pretend to be knowing all these. Try to contribute where you really can contribute.
     
    chandandas.me, Dec 23, 2011 IP
  8. websitebuildersperth

    websitebuildersperth Peon

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    #28
    Canonical url can be both www version or non tripple w version. You have to decide which url you want your visitors to see and that will be your canonical url.
     
    websitebuildersperth, Dec 25, 2011 IP
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    If your site is open more than one url than it's called a canonical links.canonical issue is bad for website ranking.search engine can't handle your sites both links.
     
    harrysom, Dec 25, 2011 IP
  10. venkatjaya

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    According to me it is use to remove the duplication between same content of page. So that google should allow to crawl the pages.



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    venkatjaya, Dec 26, 2011 IP
  11. Maria Taylor

    Maria Taylor Greenhorn

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    Hello,

    I have fixed my url without www in webmaster and on site too, it will be negative for my website ranking? It will harm to my website?
     
    Maria Taylor, Sep 29, 2014 IP
  12. maddenitrous

    maddenitrous Well-Known Member

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    #32
    This is false. Where did you get these info from?

    You can use www version or non www version, search engines consider each version as a separate website and as long as you redirect the one your not using to the one you are using with 301 permanent redirect, there will be no issues.
     
    maddenitrous, Oct 2, 2014 IP
  13. rankwatch.com

    rankwatch.com Active Member

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    Totally agree with you. It deals with duplicate content and tells Google that okay this page is similar to another page on my website and you should give importance to the other page vis-a-vis the page on which the code is.
     
    rankwatch.com, Oct 6, 2014 IP