The Rel Canonical link element solves the
duplicate content issues related to a website. It is an HTML attribute
directing the search engines about the main or canonical version of the web
page. It works well when there are several pages on a website having the same
content. In this kind of situation, you can use the rel=”canonical” attribute
to guide the search engines as to which page is your main page.
duplicate content issues related to a website. It is an HTML attribute
directing the search engines about the main or canonical version of the web
page. It works well when there are several pages on a website having the same
content. In this kind of situation, you can use the rel=”canonical” attribute
to guide the search engines as to which page is your main page.
URL Canonicalization
Suppose you are having an eCommerce store
selling mugs online. You have provided an option for sorting the mugs via
price, color or material. The unfortunate situation is that sorting would use
the same group of mugs in the database again and again. Only the urls would
change (&sort=price, &sort=color, &sort=material etc) but the
content would more or less remain the same. In this situation, we apply the
rel=”canonical” tag to prevent all these url’s from correlating with your main
product page and direct the search engines to use your main product page as the
main canonical page.
selling mugs online. You have provided an option for sorting the mugs via
price, color or material. The unfortunate situation is that sorting would use
the same group of mugs in the database again and again. Only the urls would
change (&sort=price, &sort=color, &sort=material etc) but the
content would more or less remain the same. In this situation, we apply the
rel=”canonical” tag to prevent all these url’s from correlating with your main
product page and direct the search engines to use your main product page as the
main canonical page.
Example
<link rel= “canonical” href=
“http://www.canonicalexample.com/thisiscanocialurl.php />
“http://www.canonicalexample.com/thisiscanocialurl.php />
In this example given above, the url is the
main version of the several duplicate pages in your website.
main version of the several duplicate pages in your website.
thanks for this information… i have a Ecommerce site (http://www.unze.co.uk) . i will apply this to my site,,
thanks for this valuable post, I learned a new lesson today!!
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