What is Canonical URL

From an SEO point of view here is the definition of a canonical URL: Canonical URL: the search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative. In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see. Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.
 
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A valid URL tells you the search engine that some similar URLs are actually another one. Sometimes you have the product or content available on many URLs or on many websites. Using a canonical URL (an HTML link tag with attribute rel = canonical) may be present without damaging your ranking.

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The search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative. In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see.Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL ,when there are multiple choices available.
 
Canonical issue like your website open with non www and www and /index.html but all have same content, so you should use 301 redirect other pages to www(.)domain(.)com
 
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.
 
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