{"id":96,"date":"2018-11-10T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/searchenginereports.net\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2020-05-18T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:06:11","slug":"check-canonicalization-using-redirect-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.searchenginereports.net\/blog\/check-canonicalization-using-redirect-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices for Canonicalization in Simple Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canonicalization sounds similar to a training course or a weapon. The actual meaning of canonicalization is different for SEO. It is an essential feature of organic search engine optimization. Proper canonicalization signifies that search engines crawl maximum pages of a website. It will consolidate your PageRank and link authority to increase the strength of your link profile. It means your website has fewer or no broken links from rival sites. The bad practices of canonicalization may have opposite effects. Because of lousy canonicalization, you can lose the authority of your link. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, if you have an e-commerce store: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nia\u2019s Nerdeved and its homepage is http:\/\/www.niasnerdeved.com\/. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The store is also live at http:\/\/niasnerdeved.com\/<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/niasnerdeved.com\/index.html.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People will find all three versions of your home page. They will not recognize the difference, but search engines can identify these URLs. Google bots can see three different pages on the web. The additional URLs can hurt the SEO of your website. In the first step, you will lose the authority of your link. Keep checking &amp; analysing your site or blog using <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginereports.net\/free-seo-tools\">free SEO tools<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If a blogger visits <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.niasnerdeved.com\/ and links it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the second blogger can land on http:\/\/niasnerdeved.com\/<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the third blogger will be on http:\/\/niasnerdeved.com\/index.html<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google bots will see three links on different pages and give one vote to each link. These links send three commanding signals to Google bots for the home page of your site. They will split into three weak votes for three pages. If three blogs have a similar link of your site, your website will get three votes for its homepage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Best Practices for Canonicalization<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to avoid the consequences of bad canonicalization, here are some simple tricks to follow: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the advantage of a 301 <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginereports.net\/redirect-checker\">redirect checker<\/a> to make sure that the home page of your site gets a single URL. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link your homepage consistently within your site. Use one URL for the homepage and don\u2019t mix it with similar URLs with some changes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t utilize tracking IDs in the navigation of the internal site. Several websites add different stuff, such as ?source=blog in the navigation. It allows you to track the movement of users with analytics reports. You can use reports of navigation path and web analytics referrer. If you have to utilize tracking IDs, make sure to change the software to use (a # sign) hash mark instead of one question mark. Search engines often ignore things after a hash, so you can avoid confusion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracking IDs are not good to use in organic links from several other sites. If you need the assistance of an external link with SEO, don\u2019t put any tracking ID in this link.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pay attention to pagination available on several sites. Pagination allows visitors to click 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. to jump to the next pages in articles, product lists or search results. It is fine because every page has a separate URL. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, the URL of page 1 is\u00a0<\/span>www.niasnerdeved.com\/article.html.<\/li>\n<li>Your website should take your visitors to this link when they click 1, instead of www.niasnerdeved.com\/article.html?page=1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You should use your common sense while building your website. If you want to change the footer, header, and other elements of the page, use cookies to do it. The canonical tags are the little gadgets to tell the correct URL of a page to search engines. \u00a0A tag specifies the source URL or page with original content to search engines. Conical tags declare a page as its individual source or declare duplicate pages to reference relevant sources. Search engines use these tags to combat the issues of duplicate content. It is one of the critical factors to provide ranking value to search engines. Keep checking for duplicate content using <a href=\"https:\/\/searchenginereports.net\/plagiarism-checker\">free plagiarism checker<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonicalization sounds similar to a training course or a weapon. The actual meaning of canonicalization is different for SEO. 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