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Old 09-05-2018, 02:40 AM   #1
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canonical tag difference

What is difference between canonical tag or canonical issue?
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Old 07-14-2019, 10:51 PM   #2
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A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.
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Old 07-16-2019, 02:52 AM   #3
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A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.
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Old 07-16-2019, 05:26 AM   #4
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Anyone can clearly see that the former is a tag while the latter one is the issue one may face
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Old 07-20-2019, 12:02 AM   #5
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nice information
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Old 08-17-2019, 12:37 AM   #6
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A canonical tag is a way of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical tag prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.
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Old 08-18-2019, 05:27 PM   #7
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This is a problem because when multiple pages have the same content but different URLs, links that are intended to go to the same page get split up among multiple URLs.

Ex:

both have different url but have same content

http ://www . widgets .com/blue-widgets?color=blue

http ://www . widgets . com/ blue-widgets

2. Canonical tag is used when we want to solve canonical issue

Ex:

<link href="http : // www . example . com/canonical-version-of-page/" rel="canonical" />

This tag tells Bing and Google that the given page should be treated as though it were a copy of the URL www . example . com/canonical-version-of-page/ and that all of the links and content metrics the engines apply should actually be credited toward the provided URL.
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