What Is A Canonical Url In Seo?

What is a canonical url in SEO?

 

Canonical urls are content that has multiple urls pointing to it, but your website specifies which is the preferred url to it.

An example is when you have a url with a www. preceding the domain name and a url without the www. and you set a canonical link element to specify which you want as the default one.

http://www.sinelogix.com/

 

Canonical URL means your website can open with www prefix and without www prefix.

 

Canonical URL is search engine friendly url helps the search engine to understand what your url is exactly and prevents to distribute the traffic in two urls.