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What is Canonical Issues??

rsplajit 100 Post Club
in On Site Optimization
Hello Friends,

Can anyone please tell me:
What is Canonical Issues?? Is it Important for SEO?
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  • C.Rebecca 500 Post Club
    If Google discovers your webpages via multiple URLs, it is going to declare them as duplicate. Hence, you need to tell Google about your preferred URL by adding rel=”canonical to your preferred version:
    Example being
    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

    This will give an answer to your canonical related ques
    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066

    Hope this helps! :)
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  • seoindiadesigners Registered Users
    Canonical tag is created to avoid the issue of content duplication the google mark website with www.your site.com and your site.com as duplicate so to avoid this canonical tag is used on home page. The syntax is as below :-
    <link rel="canonical" href="your main URL" />
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  • Ammy Tisdale 100 Post Club
    When a page of your website is being opened with multiple urls so it would be considered a canonical issue and Google rates it like a Duplication.
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  • Malrgaf Registered Users
    Canonical tag is created to avoid the issue of duplication the google mark website with www{.}site{.}com and site.com as duplicate so to avoid this canonical tag is used on home page.
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  • sisatelsisatel 500 Post Club
    You can also follow the discussion - http://seoforums.org/social-media-optimization/18553-whati-canonical.html
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  • cute Registered Users
    Canonical links are also known as “preferred links”. When search engines have to deal with duplicate content, they have to choose which link should be favored over all others that contain identical page content. Matt Cutts, Google Engineer, defined canonicalization on his blog as: “Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL when there are several choices“.Content duplication is one of the most common issues(or challenges) webmasters and site owners must face.
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  • jennasherly 100 Post Club
    Thanks for sharing the useful information here.
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  • Drug_Store Registered Users
    Very well explained thanks
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  • davidfrankkdavidfrankk 100 Post Club
    C.Rebecca wrote: »
    If Google discovers your webpages via multiple URLs, it is going to declare them as duplicate. Hence, you need to tell Google about your preferred URL by adding rel=”canonical to your preferred version:
    Example being
    <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

    This will give an answer to your canonical related ques
    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066

    Hope this helps! :)

    Great help.. I have having serious issues regarding this problem.. Guess its time to fix it now ! :)
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  • seojunctionseojunction Registered Users
    Hello Friends,

    Canonical Issues are related to the selection of the proper home page of the particular website.

    For example: Let us consider the website www.xyz.com. You can find out canonical issue by fixing the www.xyz.com in the browser and also find out whether it is working without www. And if does't work then your website is facing canonical issues.
    The canonical issue can be solved out through a 301 redirect through the Windows IIS interface(if the website runs on Windows server).
    A 301 redirect will tell the search engines that the pages should be redirected to one URL type. This redirect will also ensure that any link that reverse links to the wrong URL type will still be directed to the correct URL type which will prevent search engine pointing to different or illegal websites and also the confusion among search engine results will reduce .

    Thanks
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  • Thuhihup Registered Users
    Canonical issue like your website open with non www and www and /index.html but all have same content, so you should use 301 redirect other pages to www(.)domain(.)com
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  • mackyanderson 100 Post Club
    Geat informations, I actually don't know what's with canonical issue. Good thing I browse this one..
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  • localnumberone 100 Post Club
    rsplajit wrote: »
    Hello Friends,

    Can anyone please tell me:
    What is Canonical Issues?? Is it Important for SEO?

    Canonical Issue is a case where your site has more than One variation for a page. Like it has two versions for it's Home page:
    http://www.mysite.com and http://mysite.com

    Thanks..
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  • tinilxyz Registered Users
    The canonical issue can be solved out through a 301 redirect through the Windows IIS interface(if the website runs on Windows server).

    A 301 redirect will tell the search engines that the pages should be redirected to one URL type. This redirect will also ensure that any link that reverse links to the wrong URL type will still be directed to the correct URL type which will prevent search engine pointing to different or illegal websites and also the confusion among search engine results will reduce .
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  • szenith1 Registered Users
    thanks for sharing a nice information it is really good info
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  • AlbertSmiths Registered Users
    The canonical issue can be solved out through a 301 redirect through the Windows IIS interface(if the website runs on Windows server).

    A 301 redirect will tell the search engines that the pages should be redirected to one URL type. This redirect will also ensure that any link that reverse links to the wrong URL type will still be directed to the correct URL type which will prevent search engine pointing to different or illegal websites and also the confusion among search engine results will reduce .
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  • madison37 Registered Users
    Thanks for sharing the very useful information here. But Can you tell me, how to fix a canonical issue?
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  • DaveVelasco Registered Users
    rsplajit wrote: »
    Hello Friends,

    Can anyone please tell me:
    What is Canonical Issues?? Is it Important for SEO?

    Canonical issues are for pages of your website with the same content. Canonicals will help you tell crawlers about duplicate pages within your website and to treat them as one or not to crawl the other page.
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