How to resolve Canonical Errors in your website

A PresentationBy

Ravi kumarGsesoftsolutions.com

Canonical Issues?

• If your website is opening by the following

– www.abc.com

– Abc.com

– Abe.com/index.php

– Abc.com/index.html

the same page is displaying and is not redirecting to www.abc.com(correct URL), then canonical issues found. You have to remove it, because Google understand all different URLS.

How to resolve canonical issues?

• You can resolve it by the following techniques

– By htaccess file(for All Search Engines)

– By GWT(Google Webmaster tool)

By htaccess file(for All Search Engines)

• We will put redirection code on .htaccess file the non-www version to www version.

• Open your .htaccess file and add the following line

• RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com$ [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

• Save and Exit

By GWT(Google Webmaster tool)

• Open your Google Webmaster Tool(GWT) and go to your Website Dashboard

• Go to site setting(see snapshot)

Resolving Canonical Issues with GWT

• Select Display URL s as www.gsesoftsolutions.com and click on save button

Hope These Help!

Created by Ravi kumar @ gsesoftsolutions.com

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