what is canonical URL tag?

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  1. #1
    Hello

    What is canonical URL tag and how it's use in SEO?
     
    jantseo, Aug 4, 2011 IP
  2. monikajoshi

    monikajoshi Peon

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    In  a few days back...Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element to clean up duplicate urls on sites.that is called canonical URL tag
     
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    first you explain me, What is canonical URL?
     
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    fydgp Greenhorn

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    See http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps for the explanation.
     
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  5. jitendrag

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    canonical url tag is to help webmasters and site owners eliminate self-created duplicate content in the index ..........
     
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    You can simply add this <link> tag to specify preferred version:

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.rathoredesign.com/nid-india-nid-coaching.html" />

    inside the <head> section of the duplicate content URLs:

    http://www.rathoredesign.com/nid-india-nid-coaching
    http://www.rathoredesign.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=165

    And Google will understand that the duplicates all refer to the canonical URL: http://www.rathoredesign.com/nid-india-nid-coaching.html
    Additional URL properties, like Page Rank and related signals, are transferred as well.

    This standard can be adopted by any search engine when crawling and indexing our site.
     
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    this is main tag for canonical
    <link rel="canonical" href="canonical page's url" />
     
    joesmith1608, Aug 5, 2011 IP
  9. nene

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    Generally speaking, adding canonical tags would only reduce the number of indexed pages if there were a large number of duplicate pages already indexed. There's certainly no penalty for using them, even if there were no obvious need for it.
     
    nene, Aug 8, 2011 IP
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    Hi,

    canonical URL's means when your URl redirect with Non www or www on the same time on servers so this is canonical issue & you should take a help of 301 redirect!
     
    Icecube_media, Aug 8, 2011 IP
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    Great information I have found there about canonical tags. Thanks for sharing this.
     
    bellsimth, Aug 8, 2011 IP
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    URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization process is to transform a URL into a normalized or canonical URL so it is possible to determine if two syntactically different URLs may be equivalent.
     
    andy25i, Aug 11, 2011 IP
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    canonical is a duplicated content for the url...
     
    john0777, Aug 23, 2011 IP