Advance SEO Concept

Canonical tags in SEO

Canonical Tag is an HTML Code, which tells the search engine which page is the main version of this visiting page.

Benefits of a canonical tag

Why you should

To Avoid Duplicate content issue
Rank the correct Page
Better Indexing and Ranking
Consolidate Page Ranking

Format and Types to use canonical tag

To use as HTML

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://example.com” />

to use in the header section

Link: https://www.example.com/; rel=”canonical”

Canonical Tag Diagram for normal pages on a website

Let’s suppose you’ve three different pages with the same content. Google is confused with the same content. To avoid duplicate content or any other issues you’ve to declare the main version to index properly. You tell Google which is the main version by using a canonical tag.