What are Canonical Url's ?

A canonical URL quite sometimes used to describe the homepage of the sites. Mostly the URL which we want visitors to see.

The canonical URL make search engine identifies certain similar URLs that are actually same. Sometimes in a website the content is accessible via multiple URLs.

If the webpage using rel=canonical it helps in ranking of the original page.   

The webmasters get assisted to identify the duplicate content issues using the canonical URLs.

It does this by specifying the “canonical” or “preferred”. It improves SEO of the site also.

SEO Benefit:

   1. SEO of the website improves.

   2. it can search count of all the links of different versions of the link to single version.

The process of canonicalization:

Sometimes in e-commerce sites there are more than one choices for a products URL,canonicalization is the process of picking one.

How to set canonical URLs:

   For example, these are their URLs:

      http://example.com/magento/seo-plugin/

      http://example.com/magento/plugins/seo/

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