Canonical Error

[Adam Lewis]

What is canonical error in SEO? How can it will be solved ?

 

[NicholasK]

When your home page opens with both "http://www.site.com" and "http://site.com" is known as canonical error. Sometime Canonical URL (best URL version) is also referred as "Preferred Domain".

Canonicalization (Methods to set this problem)

1. Set your preferred domain (using webmaster tool)

2. Specify the canonical link for each version of the page
For Example:
link rel="canonical" href="http://www.canonical.com"
Add this extra information to the section of non-canonical URLs.

3. Indicate your canonical (preferred) URLs by including them in a Sitemap

4. Indicate how you would like Google to handle dynamic parameters. (by using Parameter Handling)

 

[Balwinder Singh]

Canonical error should be solved as soon as possible, this shows duplicate content on slightly different request urls and this is quite harmful for ranking of a website.
Please read more at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?rd=1

 

[sofhiathomas]

When the same site is obtained from 2 different urls, then it is called Canonical error. Use link rel="canonical" to overcome this issue.

 

[mindstreak]

Canonical urls should be used if two different webpages has the same content within them.Normally this would lead to duplication.So for this the masterpage has to be specified with the canonical url showing the search engines that these content are not duplicate.

 

[koyal]

when same site available on two different urls, having same data.

 

[jaysh4922]

Canonical is a value written in ‘rel’ field of the link tag. If search engines come across a webpage with canonical tag in it, they understand that it is the duplicate version.A URL is provided in the link tag which points to original version of the content.

 

[nancyisabell]

Check this link :- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical