What is a canonical page?

Many sites have similar page content in their websites. Often named as duplicated content. If search engines (like Google) will find duplicated content, then Google will index only one version. And in your case this could be the wrong version (page) and you could miss a lot of potential traffic. This is what we call a canonical issue. A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content. But you as the web owner can tell Google which version has to be indexed, by adding a specific parameter in the section of your website. Watch Matt Cutt’s video about...