{"id":1002697,"date":"2023-01-19T04:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanjayshenoy.com\/?p=1002697"},"modified":"2023-01-19T05:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:37:25","slug":"what-is-canonical-url-in-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjayshenoy.com\/what-is-canonical-url-in-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Canonical URL in SEO? – A Simple Beginners Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Have you seen the Multiple choice questions Meme on Social Media? Or attempted the multiple-choice options in your exams? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well! Are they all same or different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can agree it\u2019s all Steve Harvey.  Yet all four images are different!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Say we pick the option \u2018d\u2019 as the original version Harvey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google faces a similar dilemma when it comes across various similar pages on your website with the same content and it has to choose the relevant link for a search query to display in the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to make things easy and also want a specific URL to rank, then you have to mark that URL as something called a canonical URL in SEO.  It\u2019s like we picked option d as the true version of Harvey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what do I mean by similar pages and why do they occur?  I have explained it in this article along with what a canonical URL means and why you should be using it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on for a better understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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