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What is Canonical tag?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Baylee, Nov 20, 2012.

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    Please tell me about it.
     
    Baylee, Nov 20, 2012 IP
  2. jassonwater

    jassonwater Peon

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    Canonical tag is use on duplicate pages to shows to a search engine that where the original version of that page is.
     
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    I agree with him but how can we use this technique seo?
     
    jipolis7, Nov 20, 2012 IP
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    Technoduce Greenhorn

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    Very good info.. It will definitely help me a lot in the future.
     
    Technoduce, Nov 20, 2012 IP
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    andersonsjohn Banned

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    It is used to tell google which is the correct version of a page, so if you have a page that has a few duplicates with different URLs, you can put the canoncial tag in to tell Google the 'true' version of the page
     
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    Many sites have multiple entry pages. search engines is to decide where you may have duplicate content within your website.By adding the rel=canonical tag you inform the search engines spider where you may have duplicate content within your website. <link rel="canonical" href="url" />
     
    suvendug, Nov 20, 2012 IP
  7. rakesh.swaransoft

    rakesh.swaransoft Greenhorn

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    if u have duplicate pages then we use canonical tag to tell search engine spider which page is original.
     
    rakesh.swaransoft, Nov 20, 2012 IP
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    A canonical tag is applied to pages to show your preference for that pages over similar others. It is used to prevent duplicate content.

    Hope that helps. Have a good day!
     
    affilorama, Nov 20, 2012 IP
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    seomukesh Greenhorn

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    Hi,
    yes, that's right i agree with you, access from search engine is to decide where you may have duplicate content your website.
     
    seomukesh, Nov 20, 2012 IP
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    icecube media Greenhorn

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    [h=1]The Canonical Tag Can Save You from the Duplicate Content Monster[/h]
     
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    SomanNInan Peon

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    When your website is opening with WWW and without WWW. Then that would be canonical problems for your website.
     
    SomanNInan, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    Canonical help the search engine to avoid the duplicate page index.
     
    macrosoft85, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    Sap-Payment Greenhorn

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    Thanks for huge information shared, i agree with you...
     
    Sap-Payment, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    Canonicalization can be a challenging concept to understand (and hard to pronounce - "ca-non-ick-cull-eye-zay-shun"), but it's essential to creating an optimized website. The fundamental problems stem from multiple uses for a single piece of writing - a paragraph or, more often, an entire page of content will appear in multiple locations on a website, or even on multiple websites. For search engines, this presents a conundrum - which version of this content should they show to searchers? SEOs, refer to this issue as duplicate content.
     
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    A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred", version of a web page.


    Canonical Tag:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/" />
     
    johnmichal84, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    Canonical Tag is a way to reduce instances of duplicated content on a single site and canonicalize to an individual URL. This can also be used across different websites, from one URL on one domain to a different URL on a different domain.
    Canonical tag should be used within the page that contains duplicate content. The "target" of the canonical tag points to the "master" URL that you want to rank for.

    The Canonical URL tag attribute is similar in many ways to a 301 redirect from an SEO perspective. In essence, you're telling the engines that multiple pages should be considered as one (which a 301 does), without actually redirecting visitors to the new URL.
     
    marijar2, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    Absolutely right Andersons !!!!!!!!!!! Canonical Tag for duplicate pages !!!!!!!!!!!
     
    dataguru, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    Canonical tag is utilized for URL and you could look any web site is using www. to open in the web, but the same website is opened without using www.
     
    geneoliver, Nov 21, 2012 IP
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    [FONT=Calibri, sans-serif]Thecanonical tag is a[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif]newtag proposed by Google[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, sans-serif],designed to minimize crawl errors and the indexing of duplicatecontent in your website.[/FONT][FONT=Calibri, sans-serif][/FONT]
     
    joseprincely, Nov 22, 2012 IP
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    micheal.burns1 Greenhorn

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