What is url canonicalization ?
 

Hi friends, what is url Canonicalization in SEO and how to do it. What is benefit of url Canonicalization.

Canonical URL usually used by the webmasters to treat their sites as an authority, and it will help the search engine noticed that the site is natural to the visitors and users.

URL Canonicalization is the process of choosing the best URL when there are several choices...
for eg:
www.eg.com
www.eg.com/index most of the people will consider the two as the same...but a webserver will produce different results for both the url's ....
Thus URL Canonicalization help us to pick the best URL

Canonicalization is that the method of selecting the simplest URL once there square measure many decisions, and it always refers to home pages. One issue that helps is to select the URL that you simply wish and use that URL systematically across your entire web site.

URL canonicalization is that particular keywords going for multiple URL.

Canonicalization is the process of picking the best 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. The typical example used is that most people treat the following URLs as the same:

www.example.com
example.com
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp

The fact is that these are all different URLs. From a search engine perspective, this can cause a bit of an issue. Hence the idea of canonicalization. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL (to present to the search engines) when there are multiple choices available. Typically a search engine, such as Google will attempt to pick the best URL that they feel is the authority for that page. However, sometimes they may in fact select the wrong one. Now let’s suggest that you have product pages that depending on how the user navigated to the pager returns a different URL… same page but different URL, now we have a duplicate content issue. Not to mention the nightmare for interlinking and external link inventories.