What is Canonical Issue

How to Remove Canonical Issue

Canonical Issue arises when 301 redirects are not properly work. This mean your website access with different different url. If you do not fixed this problem search engine will be index your website with different different url, in result your website look like duplicate content.

For example you have a website with name www.sitesbay.com this website can be open with following different url.

• http://sitesbay.com
• http://www.sitesbay.com
• http://sitesbay.com/index.html
• http://www.sitesbay.com/index.html

How to Remove Canonical Issue

To remove this problem redirect all urls on single url. Some methods to solve this problem are given below;

Create .htaccess File

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} sitesbay.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://sitesbay.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} sitesbay.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitesbay.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

.htaccess: This file is mainly used for redirect url, to create this file you can create any file and save with .htaccess file name.

Note: You can also redirect using cpanel.