URL Canonicalization

[Kalpart]

How much URL Canonicalization error affect the website rank? And how to fix error?

 

[James Morrison]

URL Canonicalization affects your website ranking. You can fix it using permanent 301 redirect. But do it properly. Otherwise it will give negative effect.

 

[mav3n]

The best way to correct any issues from the whole "www" or "non-www" is to add the following to your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com$       [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$       http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[Riya]

Use 301 direction to make sure that the home page is found only in one URL. Don't use tracking ID in the navigation.

 

[sulbha]

As per google webmaster guideline, a web site with www & without www is treated two individual web sites with same content. So in this case google takes one web site as a duplicate content. It affects not only your ranking also affects your web site page rank. You can solve this by using a 301 redirect to the correct URL using the rel=canonical tag.

 

[weakpoints123]

The best way to correct any issues from the whole "www" or "non-www" is to add the following to your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com$       [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$       http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This is the best answer I have seen so far.