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Tuesday 6 November 2012

What Is Canonical Issue? How To Solve it?


Canonical Issues are related to the selection of the proper home page of the particular website.

For example: Let us consider the website www.xyz.com. You can find out canonical issue by fixing the www.xyz.com in the browser and also find out whether it is working without www. And if does't work then your website is facing canonical issues.

The canonical issue can be solved out through a 301 redirect through the Windows IIS interface(if the website runs on Windows server).

A 301 redirect will tell the search engines that the pages should be redirected to one URL type. This redirect will also ensure that any link that reverse links to the wrong URL type will still be directed to the correct URL type which will prevent search engine pointing to different or illegal websites and also the confusion among search engine results will reduce .


If Google discovers your webpages via multiple URLs, it is going to declare them as duplicate. Hence, you need to tell Google about your preferred URL by adding rel=”canonical to your preferred version:
Example being
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

This will give an answer to your canonical related ques
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066

Hope this helps!  

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