Concept of Canonicalization

Concept of Canonicalization

Canonicalization is an important concept related to a website from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspective. It is governed by two major factors:-

1. Canonical Issue
2. Canonical Tag

Canonical Issue

Canonical Issue is a situation wherein any website gives different results with WWW and without WWW.

Example

www.example.com/

example.com/

Canonical Tag

The syntax of Canonical Tag is described below:-

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/” />