Thread: How to create Canonical URLs?

Canonical refers to the preferred version of a set of pages within similar pages. It is a way to tell Google that one URL is the same a s another URL during search.

For Example:
http://www(dot)domainname.com/
http://www(dot)domainname.com/?source=abcdef

An example of a canonical URL would be mysite.com/family/children/problems as opposed to mysite.com/problems3.html.

Canonical URLs are usually defined through a mix between Apache's .htaccess and a database of page name.

You should probably find an existing script for it as I'm sure it would take you months or years to figure it out.

Canonical tag is used to fix website url. It totally depends upon you whether you want to fix website URL with www or without www. It's very easy to create canonical tag. You can paste below code into your webpage coding section.

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.google.com" />

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages.Google has more than one version of one and

the same page indexed:
Example Domain

example.com

Example Domain

example.com/

Example Domain

Example Domain

etc.





reclaim rubber

If you have same page with multiple urls then use rel="canonical" attributes in a link to head section with your preferred url.

Ex. You have same page - http://www.YourDomain.com and http://www.YourDomain.com/index.php
Then indicate your preferred url in head section of these pages -
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.YourDomain.com" />