What is the meaning of Canonicalization in SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by afoley77, Jan 9, 2013.

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    I have heard about Canonicalization in the case of URLs. What does it mean? can anybody help me to get the right answer about it in simple language so that i can understand what is it in exact?
     
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  2. EllenSmith

    EllenSmith Active Member

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    "Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages."

    Sometimes Google has more than one version of one and the same page indexed.
     
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    andersonsjohn Banned

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    URL canonicalization is basically making sure site is only available by either www.site.com or site.com. To test just choose which one you would like to be default and make sure the other one will auto-redirect to your default choice. It's an SEO concern.
     
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    Yes. canonicalization means picking up the best URL from the different URLs of a page. Sometimes, a webpage gets uploaded with different URLs, e.g, a website can be uploaded with www[dot]abc[dot]com/ and also with www[dot]abc[dot]com/index[dot]html. In that case you need to tell search engines which URL you need to get indexed in search engines. For that, you can use canonical tag in html coding of your page and can mention your preferred URL there.
     
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    Canonicalization stand for Pick best Url from the Different type of url and the Canonical prolem means while our site open without www Prefix .Canonical problem is very bad for search engine optimization.
     
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    Canonicalization, in the SEO context, refers to the same content that appear on different webpages, thus having different URLs. This presents a problem to search engines as they can only show only one of the URLs the content is found in. So, you need to use a canonicalization plugin and inform the search engine which version of the content you want to present to users.

    Hope that helps. Have a good day!
     
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  7. seovidya

    seovidya Greenhorn

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    canonicalization is the process, there will be canonical errors, means there will two urls one is real and other will be duplicate, in these process helps to take best url.
     
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    Canonicalization for SEOs refers to normalizing (redirecting to a single dominant version) multiple URLs.

    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.

    example

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www. xyz.com" />
    where xyz is your website
     
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    The canonical edition of any URL is the single most trustworthy edition listed by significant google. Look for search engines generally use PageRank or a identical evaluate to decide which edition of a URL is the canonical URL.
     
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    Canonicalization is the process of converting data that involves more than one representation into a standard approved format. Such a conversion ensures that data conforms to canonical rules. This compares different representations to assure equivalence, to count numbers of distinct data structures, to impose a meaningful sorting order and to improve algorithm efficiency, thus eliminating repeated calculations.
     
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    If you have two different URLs having same content would raise the problem of duplication, to avoid this issue Canonicalization is the concept that gives the particular page the main authority to that particular page ignoring other one.
     
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