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Thursday 8 May 2014

What is Canonicalization and How to Solve this for Website

Q: What is a canonical url?
Canonicalization is the process of selecting the best URL structure for your website and it is mostly for the Home or Index pages. Most of us consider given URL’s same:

www.mysite.com
http://mysite.com
mysite.com
www.mysite.com/index.php

But these all URL’s are different. Web server completely returns different content for all those URL’s.  We choose the most usable URL for our site work.

Q: How Search engines pick the URL for my Website?
The main thing to consider is to use the same URL for all work in the entire website. For example if you starting your work using http://mysite.com url then you need to use this format for your entire site and link building rather than the different URL’s.

Q: Is there is any other Method to do this?
Yes, you can use 301 re-directions for all of your other URL’s to the main URL. Suppose a example, if you are using http://mysite.com for all work you need to use 301 redirect code to all other URL’s like www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.php.

Q: Use of Canonical Tag
A canonical tag is uses on the pages that you think that it is a duplicate content on your website. Suppose a example if you have two page http://mysite.com and other is http://mysite.com/index.php then you need to add canonical tag to http://mysite.com/index.php, so that search engine spider can treated it a copy of http://mysite.com
<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com/index.php" />

Q: If I want to keep www.mysite.com rather than the mysite.com, can I delete mysite.com?

No, if you are doing such thing your domain could be removing your domain completely. If this happened you must need reinclusion request and mention that you did it my mistake.

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