What is Canonical URL

What is Canonical URL

A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical" or "preferred" version of a web page as part of search engine optimization.

A canonical URL is defined as a 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.

It's a good idea to pick one of those URLs as your preferred (canonical) destination, and use 301 redirects to send traffic from the other URLs to your preferred URL. A server-side 301 redirect is the best way to ensure that users and search engines are directed to the correct page.

The word "Canonical URl" means the url which you want to show,it introduce your home page i.e www.homepage.com

That helps Google know which url you prefer to be canonical

there is no canonical url we can use canonical tag for redirecting urls for avoiding duplicate content