canonicalisation

Canonicalisation

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What is Canonicalisation

Simply put, it’s...

The process of establishing a single URL as the location of a web document. Ensuring that although you may be able to arrive to a page via multiple paths or addresses, there is only one final address which will be resolved by the server.


A search engine deems these examples as different URLs or Duplicate Content!

http://www.url.comhttp://url.com http://www.url.com/indexwww.url.com

Even though, to you and me they go to the same place.


So what do we do?

The standard practice in SEO is to set up a permanent redirectOften known as a 301 redirect.

We can do this very easily by setting up just one root file!


1. Open a note pad document and copy and paste the following code into it


2. Save it as .htaccess (remember the ‘ . ’)

3. Upload this to your Root Folder

That’s it!

You’ve Canonicalised your domain

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