What is canonical tag? How to use canonical tag?

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    What is canonical tag? How to use canonical tag?


    Please Explain uses of canonical tag?
     
    aksdes, Jun 1, 2012 IP
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    Hi,
    Canonical tag is used to avoid duplicate content issues. If you have two url having the same content you can tell Google which is your original content by including the canonical tag. For example, example.com and example.com/index.html has the same content. So you can add <link rel="canonical href="example.com" /> as the canonical tag assuming that example.com is the original page.
     
    nikhilrajr, Jun 1, 2012 IP