What is Canonical URL?
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What is Canonical URL?
A Canonical URL allows you to tell search engines that certain similar URLs are actually one and the same. Sometimes you have products or content that is accessible under multiple URLs, or even on multiple websites. Using a canonical URL (an HTML link tag with attribute rel=canonical) these can exist without harming your Rankings.
It is a specific URL represents the master copy of a page and allows you to tell the search engine that certain similar urls are actually one.
It is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues in search engine optimization by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page
A canonical URL refers to an HTML link element, with the attribute of rel="canonical" , found in the <head> element of your webpage.
The canonical URL is a Meta tag that allows the search engines to index the preferred URL for one site from the multiple URLs available.