Canonical Tag

The canonical tag (rel=“canonical”) is an HTML element that tells search engines which URL is the preferred, canonical version of a page when identical or very similar content is reachable at several addresses.

In practice

Canonical tags consolidate ranking signals on a single URL and stop similar pages – created by parameters, print views or language variants – competing against each other as duplicate content. Every page should point either at itself or deliberately at the one intended target version.

Matching service

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