What is canonical error?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by peaksoft, Dec 6, 2012.

  1. #1
    HI friends,

    i want to know about the canonical error? How this error create and how it is affect the website? Please give me answer bcoz i cant understand this error.
     
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  2. peaksoft

    peaksoft Member

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    Thanks for giving this informative answer.
     
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  3. Elfen Lied

    Elfen Lied Banned

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    Canonical issue can affect your ranking in google search engine. This problem occurred only in google search engine. As per google webmaster guideline, a web site with www & without www is treated two individual web sites with same content. So in this case google takes one web site as a duplicate content. It affects not only your ranking also affects your web site page rank. So you need to write a specific code so that when you enter domainname.com,
     
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  4. affilorama

    affilorama Active Member

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    Canonical error is when you have more than one URL for the same exact page. For example, http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com. You need to define which URL is your preferred URL for tht page by using the rel="canonical" code. You need to to add this to the <head> section of the non-canonical version of the page.

    If you are using Wordpress, you can use canonicalization plugins, although if I remember correctly, Wordpress automatically corrects canonical errors now.

    Hope that helps. Have a good day!
     
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  5. petersmith5544

    petersmith5544 Greenhorn

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    Canonical actually isn't not an actual error, but this particular tag defines that the content on the page is taken from other URL. When a search engine spiders crawls your canonicalize URL, it will redirect spiders to that URL.
     
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    greendealmanager Greenhorn

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    When your home page opens with both "http://www.site.com" and "http://site.com" is known as canonical error. Sometime Canonical URL (best URL version) is also referred as "Preferred Domain".
     
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    when your site home page found on both "http://www.example.com", "http://example.com" and "http://www.example.com/index" it is called canonical error. it can be solved easily using .htaccess. You need to place this tag< rel="canonical " href="http://www.example.com"/> into other non canonical pages. this to show the search engine that this is the original version.
     
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    Canonical error is also define as duplicacy in somwhere in term SEO, due to 2 other different urls one with www and another without www. It an be solved in google webmaster Configuration>>Setting.
     
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    Google can reach to your web page through different URLs, this may create a confusion of duplicate content for search engine then its errer called canonical error.
     
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    when, your site page is opening with www. and without www its just canonical error....
    in my view this is good for site.
     
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