Category: Technical SEO

Canonical

Pointing to the "main" version of a page.

The canonical tag (rel="canonical") tells the search engine which URL is the source version when the same content is available under several URLs. It protects against duplicate content and consolidates ranking signals onto one address.

🔗 Related terms

D

Duplicate content

The same content under multiple URLs.

R

301 redirect

A permanent move of an address to a new URL.

I

Indexing

Adding a page to the search engine's database.

R

robots.txt

A file controlling bot access to the site.

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