- What is Canonicalization?
- What is canonical issue?
- What causes duplicate content?
- What is canonicalization in SEO?
What is Canonicalization?
In computer science, canonicalization (sometimes standardization or normalization) is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form.
What is canonical issue?
A canonical issue occurs when the canonical URL is not defined, or it is not defined correctly. In order to avoid this situation, there are a few ways of dealing with canonical URLs: 1. Making 301 redirects to the canonical URL.
What causes duplicate content?
This occurs when each user that visits a website is assigned a different session ID that is stored in the URL. Printer-friendly versions of content can also cause duplicate content issues when multiple versions of the pages get indexed.
What is canonicalization in SEO?
A canonical URL is the URL of the page that Google thinks is most representative from a set of duplicate pages on your site. For example, if you have URLs for the same page ( example.com?dress=1234 and example.com/dresses/1234 ), Google chooses one as canonical.