What is canonical tag?

[simon56]

Canonical tags defines that your URL is on only one domain. It means suppose you have a URL and it is open on only the same on which you are working. If your URL is not opening at one URL then there will be a canonical issue.

 

[jeanniemay96]

The canonical tag is informing search engines the particular page is the exact one to crawl and pass link juices and mentioning original version content is the same one.

 

[gurunath]

Avoid duplicate content in your website using this tag to say the search engine the content used by this website is same.

 

[mansi99]

Canonical tag is used to avoid the duplicate page issues on SERP's.

 

[Jessy]

Jump to: navigation, search. A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page as part of search engine optimization.
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[Sophia]

Jump to: navigation, search. A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page as part of search engine optimization.

 

[AnastaciaFelicia]

The canonical tag is a new tag proposed by Google, designed to minimize crawl errors and the indexing of duplicate content in your website. Support for the tag has been adopted by most of the search engines, and it’s a good idea to add to your own website if you want to get your best search engine rankings.